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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-03-07

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Circuir Court
T"nth Of February, Jun. and October.
County Courts.
first Monday in April, July, November
and .lsuusry
Arrivals and Exits of Malls.
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rep' sunday, arrives saus usy 1T 3 %. IA.
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day at " y. IN, ard leaves Wednesday and
Saturday, at -. M.
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Societies.
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facets Saturday night on or Seforc the full
moon IN each month
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meets Saturday night in each We, kat 1880
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GRASrsvILLE:
CALHOUN CHRONICLE PRINT

1898.
on the title page of book you will lind
the pages Of that book plsasiLg.y arranged
and perfectly printed
though you may not be = judge of fine
arts land printing is one of the fre.,) there
Is richness AID superior look about our
work which tells of experience hands and
painstasing care in eystv detail.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
Dublin B0OthIacks, 1880.

Among the %populace Of Dublin in
1850, says the University Magazine, the
s~hoeblackS were a numerous and for
midable body. The polish they used
was lampblack and eggs. for which
they purchased all that were rotten in
the markets. Their implements con-
sisted Of a three legged stool, a basket
containing a blunt knife, called a
spudd. a painters brush and az old
wig. A gentleman usually went out in
the morning with dirty boots or shoes.
surc to find a sloeblack sitting on his
stool at the corner Of the street. The
gentleman put his foot in the lap Of the
shoeblack without ceremony, and the
artist scraped IL with his spudd, wiped
it with his wig and then laid on his
composition a thick as black paint
with his painters brush.
The stuff dried with a rich polish, re-
quiring no friction and little inferior
to the elaborated modern fluids, save
only the intolerable odors exhaled from
eggs in a high state Of putridity and
which filed any house which was n
tered before the composition was quite
dry and sometimes even tai1sted the air
of fashionable drawing roon1s Polish
ing shoes, we should mention. was at
this time a refinement almost confined
to cities. people in the country being
generally satisfied with grease.
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Mems Feet.

The man buying a pair Of shoes
found the right one perfectly comfort.
able and easy. the left one rather snug.
ITS usually So" said the salesman;
1.-The left foot is commonly a little big.
ger than the right foot"
"Why don't you make the left shoe a
little bigger, then?" asked the custom.
er.
"Well." said the salesman. 1.-The DIFF.
ference is usually not great, and It
might not be enough so that 1t would
be noticed If trying on shoes. And then
1t Is not SO great but what the differ
enc in feeling Of the two shoes disap.
pears very And then, too, In some
cases the mans right foot Is the larger,
the man being right footed In this re.
spect as men are sometimes left hand.
ed. the reverse Of the common habit In
the use of their hands. II shoes were
commonly made with the left a little
bigger than the right, to fit the major.
ity Of cases. they'd be worse than eve
when you hit a right footed man. So
the shoes are made alike in size. a mar
gets n pair that fit him comfortably to
start with and they adapt themselves
quickly to any slight differences in the
feet."-New York Sun.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
How Care Kills.

Wise people have long been aware
that care killed a cat" but 1t has been
left to the X rays to explain how and
why. DR.. Fritz Lange Of Munich has
turned his fluorescent screen upon the
stomach of a happy and contented cat
and has seen the process Of digestion
going on as it should In all we'll regu.
lated stomachs. Then he has introduced
care and irritation into the feline mind
by placing a live mouse just beyond
reach and has seen digestion stopped
thereby.
The Society For the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals may cry out on be.
half Of the cat, or the mouse, or both,
but the lesson against worrying Is as
complete as any Christian Scientist
could desire. Worrying stops digestion.
causes dyspepsia. retards all the nor.
NAL physical processes and demoralizcs
both body and mind. 1t wastes the
forces of hfe, destroying the tissues
without accomplishing anything.-Chi.
cago Tribune.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
The Cause.

Have you a last request to maker"
asked the king Of the Cannibal islands,
addressing the missionary.
The latter glanced at his august mai
esty $50 called by reason Of his sum-
mer attire), and replied:
Eyes. Great One. When l left my ma
tive heath, l promised to write to a
brother in this line Of work and tell
him how l liked the country. If your
majesty pleases, l should like to write
him a few words"
The king reflected for a moment.
"There can be no objection to that, SO
far as l can see. You may proceed"
The m~issionary's hands were united.
and there upon a piece Of bark he in.
scribed the following words: ....
Dear Friend-This is . delightful country.
There is but one objection to 1t, and that, ! fear,
will account for the fact that ! shall never see you
again. There Is plenty to eat here-but the cook
ing will kill me. Farewell.
This being finished. the king directed
his slaves to stir the caldron and the
preparation Of the meal proceeded.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
A FEAT IN GLASS BLOWING
The Trick Which a Russian Sprung
ON the Experts.

The trick w men a NU00lan sprung
ON the Experts.
Emperor Nicholas wished to illumi.
nate theAlexander column In a grand
style. The size of the round lamps to
be used for the purpose were indicated
and the glasses ordered ut the manu-.
factory. where the workmen exerted
themselves in vain and almost blew
the breath out Of their bodies in the
cndeavor to obtain the desired size.
The commission must be executed.
that was self evident. but how?
A great premium was offered to the
one who could solve the problem. Again
the human bellows toiled and puffed.
Their object seemed unattainable.
when ut last a long bearded Russian
stepped forward and declared that he
could do it; he had strong lungs; he
would only rinse his mouth first with a
little water to refresh them.
He applied his mouth to the pipe and
puffed to such purpose that the vitre.
Gus ball swelled and putfed nearly to
the required dimensions. up to them.
beyond them.
Hold! Hold!' cried the lockers on.
you are doing too much. And how
did you do it ALL?
1.-THE matter is simple enough" an.
swered the long beard. but first. where
is my premiums" '
And when be clutched the promised
bounty he explained. "|
He had retained some Of the water
in his mouth. which had passed thence
into the glowing ball and then, becom.
ing steam, had rendered him this good
service.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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SHORT WORDS.
Here = some. and They Are RSght
to the Point.

Here r Some, and They Are Right
to the Point.
The following paragraph Oh 1.-The
Use Of Short Words Is attributed to
Horatio Seymour. 1t practices what it
preached therein. since there Is no
word in 1t with more than two sylla.
bles. save such as are quoted for pur.
poses Of illustration:
I'VE must not only think in words.
but we must also try to use the best
words and those which in speech will
put what Is in u minds into the
minds of others. This Is the great art
which those must gain who wish to
teach in the school. the church. at the
bar or through the press. TO do this In
the right way they should use the
short words which we learn in early
life and which have the same sense to
all classes Of men. The English Of u
Bible Is good. Now and then some
long words are found. and they always
hurt the verses In which you lind them.
Take that which says, o ye generation
Of vipers. who hath warned you to fee
from the wrath to come? There is n
long word which ought not to be in it.
namely. generation In the old yer.
sion the old word brood is used. Read
the verse with the term. and you Will
feel its full force: % We viper's brood.
who hath warned you to fee from the
wrath to Gomez Crime sometimes
does not look like crime when 1t Is set
before us in the many folds Of a long
word. When a man steals and we call
It a 'defalcation,' we are at a loss to
know If it Is a plumber or a crime. If
he does o tell the truth. and we are
told that it is a case Of 'prevaricati0n.'
it takes us some time to know just
what we should think Of it. No man
will ever cheat himself into wrongdo-
ing. nor will he be at a loss to Judge Of
others il he thinks and speaks Of acts
in clear. crisp terms. 1t is a good rule.
II one is at a loss to know If an act ls
right or wrong. to write it down In
short. straightout English"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
sothern ana Laura Keene.

While In New York and before he
had made any hit. the elder Sothern
had a dispute with Laura Keene con.
corning some trivial affair at a re.
hearsal. and Miss Keene went into one
of her tantrums. After the quarrel on
the stage she retired to her dressing
room and. still angry. sent for Sothern
and began to rate him iercely.
"Stop, Laura-stop just a minute"
Interrupted the comedian and advanc'
ing to the light deliberately turned II
down.
what do you mean by that. sir?"
she demanded in a rage.
ooh. nothing" replied Sothern. but
you have always been so lovely to me
that | can't bear to look upon your
beautiful face when you are in a pas.
sion. Now, 60 on."-San Francisco
ArgOnaut.
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A Gao Bicycle Given Away Duly.

The publishers of the New York
Star, the handsomely illustrated Sun.
day newspaper, are giving a high.grade
bicycle each day for the largest list of
words made by using the letters con-.
tanned in
THE NEW YORK STAR"
no o times in any u word than It
is found in the New York Star. Web
steers Dictionary to be considered as
authority. Two good watches (1rst
class timeksepeDs) will be given daily
for second and third best lists, and
many other valuable rewards, inolud.
ing dinner sets, tea sets, china, sterl.
ing silverware. etc.. etc.. in order Of
merit.
This educational eentest 10 being
given to- advertise and introduce this
successful weekly into nav homes. and
all prizes will be awarded promptly
without Partially. Twelve Scent
stamps lsust be enclosed for thirteen
weeks trial subscription with full par.
tioulars and list OF over 800 valuable
rewards. Contest opens and AWARDS
commence Monday, June a8, and closes
Monday, August ~, 1922. Your list
can reach rs any DAY between thess
dates, and will receive the award TO
which il may be entitled for that day,
and Your name will b. printed IN the
following issue Of the New York Star.
Only list u b. entered BY the
same person. Prizes IRE on exhibition
at the Stars business Offices. Persons
securing bicycles may have choice Of
ladies'. gentlemen's or Juveniles 1892
model, color or size desired. Gall or
address Dept. "E," The New York
Star, as6 West Thirty.ninth street,
New York City. 1916
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
Cause and Effect.

Several years ago the inmates of q
small, respectable dwelling house in
Philadelphia discovered upon the white.
washed wall of n of the rooms the
likeness of a human face, which faded
and returned again. The neighbors
came In to view the wonder. Other
faces appeared and vanished. Crowds
thronged the house and street, and &C.
counts of the mystery were printed in
the daily papers,
1t vas to no purpose that scientific
men insisted that the figures were
caused by moidy growths which came
and went with the dampness and that
the likeness to the human face was
imaginary, The house al pronounced
by the public to be haunted, and the
owner was unable to find a tenant for
It for years,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
Former. Brutality n. war.

Before q battle in former times the
priests solemnly devoted to the gods
the whole Of the hostile army then In
sight. and. II possible. no man Of 1t
was left alive. A writer In The Nine.
teenth Century says that when Her.
mann decoyed the great host Of Varus
into the forest depths all the Romans
that escaped death In the battle were
capture0 and Id into the dark recess.
es, where every man Of them was sac.
rificed upe.a hastily erected affairs.
Latham, IN his edition Of Tacicus,
quotes six contemporary authorities to
show that this practice Of concluding
q victory with human sacrifices was
customary among our Teutonic ances.
tors. Some crucifed their prisoners,
others hung them up to trees for arch.
cry practice, but In general o captive
was either slain or the spot or else re-
Even when the progress Of agriculture
induced them to keep a majority q
the prisoners alive to be slaves they
appeased the gods for this indignfty
by increasing the t~ortures inflicted on
the small remainder.
Gibbon describes how, before the
blazing altar, every hundredth mans
arms were hacked of him and. before
his eyes. thrown into the flames. All
that a red Indian would have done
last century was freely pxacticed by
our ancestors Of II centuries ago. And
the highest ideal Of q man then in.
cluded. as a duty, dark cruelty and
grewsome revenge against all his enc.
mics.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
Paid IL Cents to Hug His Wife.

The maddest man in Platte county
lives at Humphreys. He attended a
social. and during the evening the
ladies inaugurated a hugging bee, the
proceeds to 60 to the Sunday school.
Prices were graded according to the
person Rugged. For instance. for hug.
ging a young, inexperienced girl the
bidder had to give up ten cents, mar.
ried women brought 10 cents and
widows a quarter. Well. the mar was
blindfolded and, giving up Is cents.
he said he would take a married
woman. After he had Rugged 10 cents
worth the bandage was removed from
his eyes,and, 10 and behold, he had been
hugging his own wife! Then he kicked
and wanted his Is cents back.-Colum.
bus (Neb.l Times.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
DinnDs McGulre's whisky,

Meagher was full Of anecdotes of his
famous brigade. One story Is too good
to be lost. He said he was leading his
men to the front in one of the lever
days battles when an aid rode by and
announced the news that our army had
carried a certain strategic point and
several colors. "D'ye hear that, boys"
shouted Meagher. "Our men have won
the day and captured the enemy's col.
ors!' "Just as l said that" remarked
the general. "a private who was plung.
ing along out Of one muddy hole into
another. looked up at me and said, "Ah,
ginral. I'd rather hev a pint Of Dinnis
McGuire's whisky now than all the col.
ors Of the rainbow "-Donahue's Maya.
zine.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
The Clever 4

zone of my friends was accustomed
to grant shelter to a number of garden
spiders under a Ncant varanda and to
watch their habiss. One day a sharp
storm broke out, and the wind ragged SO
f~uriously through the garden that the
spiders suffered damage from 1t, al
though sheltered by the veranda. The
mainyards of n of these webs, as the
sailors would call them, were broken
so that the web was blown hither and
thither. like a slack sail in a storm.
"The spider made no fresh threads.
but tried to help itself in another way.
1t let itself down to the ground by a
thread and crawled to a place where
lay some splintered pieces Of a wooden
fence. thrown down by the storm. 1t
fastened q thread to one Of the bits Of
wood, turned back with 1t and hung 1t
with a strong thread to the lower part
Of its nest, about five feet from the
ground. The performance was a won.
derful one. for the weight Of the wood
suficed to keep the nest tolerably Arm.
while 1t was yet light enough to yield
to the wind and so .prevent further in.
jury. The piece of wood was about 2h
inches long and as thick as a goose
quill.
ION the following day q careless
servant knocked her head against the
wood, and 1t fell down. But In the
course of a few hours the spider mend
ed her web. broke the supporting
thread in two and let the wood fall to
the ground."-Our Animal Friends.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
wouldn,t Wear the Crown.

The late William Morris views on
the laureateship, as made public In
Mr.. Mackalls biography, were peculiar
and interesting. Mr.. Gladstone was
willing to offer Morris the succession
to Tennyson; but. on being sounded,
the socialist poet, although pleased
with the honor. declined u~nreservedly,
stating that. in his opinion, the function
of poet laureate was that Of a cere.
monial writer Of verse, and that the
Marquis Of Lorne, the languidly liter.
airy son-in-law Of Queen Victoria, was
the finest person to fulfill It.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
NovsnHI Ola AYE.

The general tendency IL for men 70
live longer, There In much evidence 70
show that In the fourteenth, fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries mon OF 10 were
considered very aged. and that a man
OF 20 was n very rare phenomenon, II
medical science, sanitation and general
obedience 10 the laws OF health con-
tinue TO Improve, tho gauge 81 norMal
sgc may yet rise TO ION. - Boston Post,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
Tell Your sister

A beautiful complexion is an impossible.
ty without good pure blood, the sort
that only exists IN connection with good
digestion, a healthy liver and bowels.
Karl's Glover Root Tea acts directly on
the bowels, liver and kidneys Keeping
them in perfect health. Price Is cts.
and 80 cts. Sold by Chapple Drug Go.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
Japanese ideas of women.

The Ave worst maladies that af'
fict the female mind are lndocility.
discomfort. SANDER. jealousy and SILL
ness. Without any doubt these Ave
maladies atiilct seven or eight out OF
every ten women. and from them arlsea
the lnferiority Of women to men, A
woman should cure them by self In
spection and self reproach The worst
Of them all and the parent OF the other
four In Stiffness CornhIll Magazine.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
A Tale From the Mysterious East

4 Tale From the MysteriOus EAst.
The last wonderful tale being told
among the Burmese in Rangoon is con-
corning a monster egg. A few months
ago near Shwebo the villagers heard a
strange and mysterious voice In the
jungle uttering in Burmese the words,
II am going to lay" which were re-
peated frequently several times a day
for many days. Eventually the egg was
laid, and it's size Is said to exceed that
Of ten large paddy baskets. Nobody
will go near this egg, from which now
come the words. II am going to hatch"
also repeated many times every day
Times Of Burmah.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
A Good Memory,

"Excuse me, sir, but haven't w met
before? Your face Ia strangely famil.
lar"
eyes. madam. u host introduced W.
to each other just before dinner"
"Ah, | was positive | had seen you
somewhere! never forget a face
Harlem Life.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21

The laws Of Mexico provide that a
Mormon who wishes to take a second
wife must present a certificate signed by
his arst helpmate to the effect that she
II willing, and he must also have the
express consent Of the second wife and
her parents.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
The National Capitol.

North and south are Joined in the
material of the national capitol. The
central building is constructed Of Vir-
ginia sandstone painted white. The
extensions are Of Massachusetts mar.
BILE, and "a columns Of the grand GEN.
trail portico are monoliths of Virginia
sandstone 80 feet high, and 100 col
umns Of the extension porticoes are Of
Maryland marble.