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The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
WOMEN'S CLUBS ODD NAMES.
A Number of Titles Which Are
Rather Enigmatic and Diffi-
cult to Pronounce

The woman's club movement has as
sumed such an extent that it has attract
ed the attention of the United States
department of labor, which has recent
ly issued an elaborate report on the at
tltude of women's clubs toward social
economics, says the Pittsburgh Chron
lcie-Telegraph. Accompanying the ar
tlcle are some statistics which indicate
that there are few settlements of any
size in our glorious country without
woman's club. The name, location and
purpose of each of 1888 women's clubs
IRE given in detail, and it appears that
this by no means eXhausts the list. An
examination of the list shows that next
to the local title of woman's club Shake
speare's name is favorite one.
There are a number of titles which
are rather enigmatic. What, for IN
stance, is the meaning of "the Leshche, ,"
the name of a club at Dalton, Ga?
Then there is the nike" Of Chicago,
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28

at Atlantic City, ''if you will think of
the exercise one gets on rocking chair,
you will see that L am right. How
many times, on these broad, wind
blown piazzas, does a young woman
rock herself in her chair in the course
of a morning? In fancy it would take
calculating barber to tell you that.
At any rate, the exercise she gets is
excellent and ample. That push which
the toes gives to keep the chair in mo-
ton, repeated and repeated, makes the
instep high, the calf round and full,
and it keeps misshapening flesh off the
ankle, keeping the ankle delicate and
slender. Such delicate ankles under
such robust calves made me fear, when
l first came down and saw your women
in their bathing dresses that the pneu-
matte stocking, so popular in my own
land, had gotten a foothold here. I
am convinced now that it is not So"
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
ALetter to Mrs. Pinkham Brought
Health to MRS. Archambo.
LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 4a,39sl

LETTER TO MRS. PlNkhAM NO' a<,oSol
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM-For two
wears felt tired and so weak and dizzy
that some days could hardly go
around the house. Backache and head
ache all the time and my food would
not digest and had such pains IN the
womb and troubled with leucorrh9a
and kidneys were affected.
"After birth of each child l gre"
weaker, and hearing so much OF the
good you had done, wrote to you ana
have taken six bottles OF Lyola T.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, one
box of Lozenges, one box of Liver Pllls'
one package of Sanative Wash, ana To-
dav am feeling as well as | ever qua.
When get up in the morning feel as
fresh as did when girl and eat ana
sleep well and do all of my work. II
ever I feel weak again shall kno"
where to get my strength. L kno"
yourmedicine cured me. MRS. oALlSA
ARcHAMBo. CHARLEMoNT, MASS.
U-be nresent Mrs. Pinkham's expert
ence in treating female ills is unparal-
Ieled: for years she worked slde Dy
la With Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and
tor sometime past has had sole charge
of the correspondence department OF
her great business, treating by letter
as MANY as hundred thousand ailing
women year. All women who suffer
.ra invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham
If I,vnn. Mass, for advice, which will
be promptly given without charge,
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28

such ominous rumors fill the streets Of
Paris. The intricate Chinese puzzle
of fashionable psychology seems, after
all, a trivial thing compared to the tre-
author feels this, judge of the senti-
ments of the reader! The effect of the
affaire Dreyfus on literature has been
the sudden disappearance of the ro-
man-a-trois, the old provincial theme
of the married lady, her husband and
her lover. After a brilliant renais-
sance, after occupying almost the whole
area of fiction, this theme has subsidized,
and If people read and write novels still,
to certain extent, these novels, or at
any rate, the best of them, have Who'll
ly different motive, interest, and in
tclIt,
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
HE SOON GOT WELL.
Landing with the BOotjack on the
Leaders Nose Had a Bene-
fetal Effect.

1t was a sad scene. The old man lay on
his bed, and by him sat the faithful wife,
holding his worn hand in hers and forcing
back the tears to greet his wandering look
with a smile. She spoke words of comfort
falling on him, and he turned his weary
eyes up to her pale, wan face.
Jennie, dear wife, l am going"
ooh, no, John-not yet-not yet"
., eyes, dear wife," and he closed his eyes;
"the end is near. The world grows dark
about me. There is mist around me gath
ering thicker and thicker, and there, as
through a cloud, I hear the music of angels
sweet and sad"
"No, no, John, dear; that isn't angels;
that's the brass band at the corner"
"What!" said the dying man. "Have
those scoundrels dared to come here when
they know I'm dying? Give me my boot
jack. I'll let 'em see"
And in a towering rage the old man
jumped from his bed, and before his wife
could think he had opened the window and
SHE'D the bootjack at the band
''I've hit that fat leader in the nose!"
And he went back to bed and got well.-Tit.
Rite
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28

the ceiling cloth" Tin old bungalows
whitewashed canvas, often cracking at
the walls, is stretched beneath the raf-
tiers, and looks just like an ordinary
ceiling), land was coming at mel"
De Silva looked at Ralph reproach-
fully, and at his shelf bed regretfully
20, honorable dore," said he, sit is
Magog. Did you not know? 1t is the
special friend and protector of my last
honorable dore. No cobra-no, dore
Only one great, beautiful, much to be
caressed ratsnake, Magog."
So De Silva wentwith his young mas.
ter into the bungalow and introduced
him to Magog-the snake. Magog hung
just as Ralph had described him, halt
way down the wall, a great, fat, black
snake, with quiet, steady, watchful eyes
on the room. 1t hung ready, at fash
of dread, to draw itself up above the
ceiling cloth and disappear in its lain
there beneath the bamboo thatch
where it hunted the rats, which fought
with it for home.
mo Magog," said De Silva, explain
ing, "then too many rats and mice"
In fact, Magog was the. house cat.
De Silva took a saucer and filed i
with cocoanut milk and placed it on the
floor in Magog's corner. Ralph shud
dered when he saw the reptile slither tC
the ground, evidently feeling quite Sc
cure, and suck up the milk. De Silv;
smiled.
''Wait, honorable SIR said he, 'anc
l will, with your honorable favor, bring
him a dinner. 1t may be that the god.
have not seen fit to give him rats"
He left Ralph alone. shuddering a.
his proximity to the big snake. 1t wa.
a monster for a ratsnake, quite five
feet in length, and thick as Ralph.
arm, and, though Ralph knew that rat
snakes were not yenomous. he felt fal
from happy at being alone with it.
The cook came back with little
squirming puppy, its eyes not yet open
DON'T" Ralph cried. but the snak,
bad already Garted for the little beast
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28

the ''Theristrial' of Marion, Ia; the
"Anarkrisians' of Sioux City, the cam
moncongin" of Cumberland Mills, Me-;
the ''Methebesic" of Rockland, Me-; the
"Heptorean" of Somerville, Mass; the
''Alsbicc" of Grand Rapids, the "Chiro-
pean'' and the "Photerone," both of
Brooklyn, and the "Ardirhebriah' of
Providence. Such names as 'Tekcos-
now and ''So-go-ye-wat-ha" are per-
haps of Indian origin. There is frank
ness in the title of "Old Maids Social
club of Woonsocket, which inspires re-
spect. 1t is, however, doubtful whether
anything descriptive is meant by the
title of the ''Nashaway' club of Nashua,
N. II. There is an Anthony club, but no
Cleopatra club.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
ROCKING BEAUTIFIES WOMEN.
How an English Scientist Accounts
for the Symmetry of Amer
lean Limbs.

The rocking chair, according to an
English scientist over here for the pur-
pose of writing a book of travels, de-
serves even a higher place in Ameri-
can esteem than it now holds, for il
is responsible, this eagle-eyed observer
claims, for one of the greatest beau
ties of the American women, the beauty
of her lower limbs, says the Philadel-
phia Record. eff you will think he
said at dinner party the other light
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
By P. Y. Black.

NHEN Ralph was sent out to learn
Wv the intricacies of the coffee
planting business in Ceylon, years ago,
he was duly grateful to his guardians
for finding a career for him, but was
slightly dubious himself as to whether
he would care much for that sort of
thing.
He studied books about the place and
read of panthers, elephants, elk and
snakes living in profusion there. He
felt somewhat alarmed, being, you
know, merely harmless, studious
youth of some II years old, who had
not the slightest desire to kill an ele-
plant, so long as the elephant did not
want to kill him.
Ralph read of cobras and tic-polongas
and other venomous snakes of the is
land, until he was scared, and, by the
time his periadore Tor manager) had
installed him in the little bamboo
thatched bungalow which he was to
call his own, he was in that state if you
had trailed a.whiplash suddenly before
his unsuspecting gaze he would have
gone into Mysteries.
Ralph had one particular servant.
whom he had to engage and pay himself
DE Silva, a Cingalese. The other
help came from the coolie lines of the
estate, and, after their days work, used
to retire to their huts. When dinner
in the evening was over De Silva used to
retire also. Where he retired to Ralph
never inquired.
At any rate, after the days work was
done, unless he was invited to dine with
the periadore, Ralph was utterly alone,
with no white man nearer than the big
bungalow, IA miles away, down the
mountain.
He used to sit and try to read the
magazines sent out to him, and his
books, but the terrible silence of the
mountains-welcome to an older man
frightened him.
That silence would be broken some
times by furious tom-tom orgie at
the huts of the coolies, or the long wall
of native woman, mourning her dead
child, or, again, by a sudden tropical
thunderstorm, with such crashes OF
CNhOILl5 tuG
and such torrents of rain as filled the
boys timid soul with terror.
1t was in the midst of one such storm,
when the reading lamp was low, and it
was near midnight, that Ralph, longing
for a companion, for some one to talk
to, looked up and saw Magog. Ralph
gave one tremendous howl and rushed
out through the back door to seek De
Silva. De Silva was placidly asleep on
the couch he had chosen for that night
"a shelf just, one would think, broad
enough for the crockery it was intend
ed to mold. Still, De Silva looked COM
Portable.
"a cobral" yelled Ralph, pulling the
cook down on the floor without regard
to his feelings. ga cobra! A snake!
A serpent! A monster!"
"Where?" cried De Silva, jumping on
a chair.
"In the sitting-room, hanging half
way down the wall! 1t hangs from
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28

pottery. The accumulated water with
in the dikes is discharged into the river
by pumps. A system of irrigation OF
the higher portion of the reclaimed
lands is provided, and the apparent con-
tradiction is presented of the draining
and the irrigation at one time of the
same body of land. For depth of two
feet the land is a mat of decayed tule
stems, and, with control of the water,
the former swamps have been made the
most productive lands in the state.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
Erench Romance of To-Day.

People in England are constantly
complaining that French novels are not
what they were, says a writer in the
Contemporary. And this is true; the
crop is slighter, and the quality has alb
ruptly varied. eye cannot gather
grapes of thistles." A few months ago
one of the first of French novelists told
me how impossible he found it to lose
himself in an imaginary world while
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
Rule That Works Both ways.

"I have frequently observed" said the
vegetarian, ''that when man lives on beef
he becomes something like an OK if he eats
mutton he looks sheepish, and if he eats
pork the chances are he will grow swinish."
Perhaps you are right" said the turtle
fed alderman. 81 have also observed that
when man lives on nothing but vegetables
he is apt to be pretty small potatoes. Chi
cago Evening News
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
Modern Fable,

A general who was conducting war in a
distant island wrote to the agricultural de-
partment of his government to ship him a
ton of acorns. When asked what he in
tended to do with them he replied:
There is no shade in our trenches, and
the troops suffer from heat A growth of
large oaks will add much to the comfort
of the men in the firing line"
He would have said more, but his atten.
tion was arrested by burst of song from
a neighboring jungle.
''Ah,' he sighed, "that is round robin!"
And he walked sadly away-San Fran.
cisco Examiner.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
How They Did 1t.

My gowns are quite au fait, I think"
The Boston maid avowed.
And mine are really very SWELL
The New York girl allowed.
My fit-out's just about the stuff
Chicago's damsel cried.
There amt no kissing bugs on mine. -
The Deadwood girl replied.
N. Y World.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
In Old Modrid

A correspondent in the Frankfurter
zeitung draws lurid picture Of the
interesting generalization of Madrid.
The present population includes, he
says, 10000 professional beggars, the
same number of abandoned women,
5000 thieves, and there are hundreds
of gambling houses.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
TALK ABOUT INDIANS
They Are Not Dying Out as Fast as
Is Generally Supposed.
How They Are Divided Among the
States and Territories-LeEend
of the Origin of the Chera
Okee Alphabet.
Especial Washington Letter. ]

Especial Washington Letter1
Statistics are usually dry and uninter-
esting; and yet once in awhile they are
SO instructive as to be entertaining.
Just by chance, in an ordinary conver-
sation with a well informed man, the
writer became acquainted with facts
and figures concerning the American
Indians which everybody should know.
1t is a popular fallacy that the abo-
riginal race is dying out so fast that
we may regard the Indians as prac-
tically obsolete, and that their numbers
have been rapidly depleted by the va
rious incidents incident to our civiliza-
ton. AS a matter of fact, we have as
many Indians in this country as we
have ever had since men began enumer-
ations of men. 1t may be well for stu
dents and rejecting men to have these
facts in their scrap books. They will
form interesting subjects for conyersa-
tion and discussion.
Our Indian brethren may not have as
much room in which to roam as in the
days when William Penn sold them a
gold brick under the wide spreading
branches of an elm that once cast an
outrageous shadow over a small por-
ton of Fishtown, but they are almost
as numerically strong as they were
more than half a century ago. Figures
demonstrate the truthfulness of this
statement. A special Indian census,
that forms part of the last general
census, gives the Indian population in
this country as 5,464, of whom, how
ever, only 1S,447 are returned as In
dians, the remainder being those who
are in various ways affiliated with the
aborigines. The Indian population of
the United States is officially recorded
since 1889, and up to 1890, by the follow
ing figures:
17S9-Estimate of the secretary of war 76 900
179O-1791-Estimate of Gilbert Inlay. $4,000
1S22-Report of Jedediah Morse on In
1S25-Report of the secretary of war 129 1856
1S29-Report of the secretary of war. .312 $50
1S32-Estimate of Samuel ]. Drake. 293, 1888
1SS4-Report of the secretary of war. .312 ,61O
Indian affairs .25S, ,464
Indian affairs ....................... .3O2, ,49S
1S50-Report of H. r. Schoolcraft. .... .3S8, 229
sus 1850 4OO, ,764
sus .................... S99 ,421
elusive of citizen indians) .......... SO6 1925
1G0-Report of the United States CEN
sus .................... 81, ,712
1SSO-Report of United States census
and Indian office. Observation-Disclosures 800, ,543
1S9O-Report of United States census 249, ,273
Those figures certainly contain a
surprise for you. From them you learn
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
Her SUGGESTION.

A fye-year-od girl lost her pet spaniel,
but regained it by means of an advertise
ment Her Sunday school lesson was about
the lost sheep, and she was very attentive.
When her teacher finished speaking she
said:
"Afiss May, why didn't the shepherd ad-
vertise in the paper for the sheep"-Phil.
adelphia Times.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
Some Information About siIns.

Traveler-I'm looking for one Silas
Scroggins.
Storekeeper-One Silas Scroggins?
That's all there is, stranger-only one.
He lives up the road; an when you rset
the pesky old cuss you'll be glad th-re
aiu't no uiore'n one!-Puck.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
Donkey Like.

'Well, got there just the same, . said
Young Softleigh, after making a speech.
That's what you did" replied Guy
er. "and with all four feet. ."-Chicaso 0
Daily News.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
Hound to BE Good.

Brown-Does that new restaurant get
up good meal?
Jones-Splendid. Even the proprle-
for dimes there.-Ohio State journal.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
A Harem Cnr.

Central Asian railroad managers try
to meet the desires of their public a
harem car with latticed windows has
been constructed for the emir of Box
hara.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
Reodv for susuectio,

There comes Maud. l wonder Il
she'll stop and speak to us?"
''Yes, indeed. She's got Oh a brand
new dress. Chicago Daily Record.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
Safe.

She-I think Dewey can be trusted to
select new admiral's uniform that suits
him, don't you?
He-Oh, yesl 1t isn't as if he were mar.
ried man.-Puck.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28
Crushing the old Man.

Purse Proud Father-Can you support my
daughter in the style to which she has been
accustomed?
Complacent Young Mani could if I
were contented with it, but | hope to give
her something better.-Somerville Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28

Laura-"The fortune teller said Miss El.
dery was to be married soon." Flora-"To
whom?" Laura-''I don't know: The poor
girl was SO happy she forgot to ask!"-Puck.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28

"I tell you what you ought to do, man
said to Drake Watson to-day. That's notn,
ing" Mr.. Watson replied; Il know 5o
things | ought to do."-Atchison Globe.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-28

that Poor Lo" is not being wiped from
the face of the earth as rapidly as many
of you imagine. Why, even the names
of the principal tribes, as recognized by
the laws of the United States, furnish
table surprising in its amplitude. 1t
contains these titles:
Apache Otter Tail
ArapahOe Ottawa
Arickaree Pillager
Blackfeet Pawnee
Bannock Pottawatomie
Brule Peoria
Comanche Piankeshaw
Cheyenne Pembin
ChickaSaw POnca
Chippewa Piute
Choctaw Qaupaw
Columbia Quinaelt
COlville Ouillehute
Creek Turtle Mountain
Crow TonkaWa
Citizen and Prairie Sioux
Pottawatome Sac and Fox of the
Carlos band, Flat Mississippi
head Sac and Fox of the
Cayuse Missouri
Cherokee Seminole
Occur d'Alene Seneca, and Seneca
Calispel of New York
Delaware Shawnee and Eastern
D'WamiSh and Absentee
Flathead Shoshone and Ban
Gros Ventre mock
Hualapai Six Nations of New
Iowa York
Josephs Band santee Sioux
Kiowa Sioux, Yankton tribe
Kaw Sheepeater
Kansas Shebit
Kickapoo S'Klallam
Kaskaskia Sisseton Sioux
klamath Spokane
Molel Utes
Miami Umatilla
Mandan Winneba goghish
Modoc Winnebagoe
Makah Wea
Meromonee Wichita
Moqui Walla Walla
Mez Perce Wyandotte
Northern Cheyenne Wahpeton Sioux
and Arapaho Northern Chevenne
Navajo and Arapaho
Usage Navajo
Otoe and Missouria
The tribes mentioned are divided
numerically among the states and terri
tories that form the great American re-
New-York tribune., 1899-01-05

date declared for Beveridse. and his rooms pro
sented lively appearance throughout the DAY.
II is conceded though. on all hands that j. FRANK
Hsnly ex-Congressman from the Lafaveue as
tric'. has decided lead. and unless 'he ono,
candidates are able 10 combine against him he VIII
be nominated We has twentv-eight pledged votes.
and Is gradually gaining pledges among the sup
portcrs Of other candidates as ? second choice,
Jude Taylor. % Fort WAYNE. has twen'! 'nr'F
pledged votes and The contest IS regarded as nelns
between him and Hanly. report was starleu 70
day that CONGRESSMAN steele would not enter tn'
caucus. and the Hany men were ciairnlns ms-
Iory of his strength hut the report proved Srounn-
less Tho conserVa tive element OF the party Is op
posed Hanly. but mis- nomination Is cNtreineN
probable. unless co71bina tion can he MADE botor"
the caucus meets by which all the opposing inter
ests will centre one man
the ma ioritv caucused tonight on the organza-
tion Of the House and Senate. Frank Llttleton was
selected for Sneaker Of the House. Tho senate
Republicans selected Senator y. {. Newly Tor
president pro. TEN The result OF the caucuses ia
looked uron as favorable ~ !. Frank Haniy TOT
United States Senator.
New-York tribune., 1899-01-05
GOVERNOR 1or-NsRrRy's ADDRESS

Hartford. Conn. Jan George f. Lounsbury
inaugurated this afternoon as Governor or
Connecticut. The ceremony took place at O'Clock
in Representatives Hall, az the Capitol. After the
oath had been administered 10 the new Governor
he delivered his address. Il OF voluminous
character treating exhaustively many subjects
Nearly every department of the State Government
discussed al length the reports of State officers
and boards were reviewed. and important legisla-
ton which has been projected was commented
upon Many recommendations were made. but
none Of them radical.
In his treatment OF the State finances the Gov
ernor urged continued economy, and advised the
General Assembly rot to attempt at this session
liquidate the funded debt OF the State. which
amounts 10 s.. S.2+o.lo0 Under the head of edu-
cation. the Governor cautioned the Legislature 'tC
stop and consider whether tho brilliancy OF the
high schools Is not binding the State TO the fact
that thousands of children are neglected.
on the subject of good roads. II was urged that
too much money had been wasted in this work. and
the necessity OF State supervision was insisted
upon. The last recommendation made was In favor
OF the taking Of initatory step In the passing OF
a constitutional amendment which shall provide
for the division OF the State into Senate districts
o' equal population.
New-York tribune., 1899-01-05
JOHN WANAMAkER
Formerly Broadway 4h 9th and 10th St N y
pArPrR GRAVE FOR ONE or DEwErs MEN.
SAILOR on THE BALTIMORE DIES IN SAN FRAN
cIsco-rEcHNIcALLY A DEsERTER

SAILOR ON THE BALTIMORE DIES IN SAN FRAN
cIsco-rEcHNICALLY A DEsERTER
San Francisco Jan tspeciaD.-A young sailor
who fought under Dewey at Manila, may be buried
front to prevent the outrage Joseph Milton Noble
Monday at the City Hospital from pneumonia. dus
10 exposure.
Noble shipped as a fireman on the gunboat Con-
cord He was transferred 70 the cruiser Bait
more and was on her when Dewey fought and van
qushed the Spanish feet OF Admiral Montojo Hs
was taken III while In Manila Haroor. and Was
sent home on sick leave on the transport Penn
sylvania On tho arrival OF the transport he
was sent TO the Government hospital at Mare Isl
land He left lnat hospital about week ago.
without leave. and came 10 this city where hs
wandered about the streets for two days. and on
Saturday last was sent 10 the City and County
Hospital suffering from preumons.
The hospital superintendent found on his body
regular discharge from the Navy. but had lost tas
document and applied for duplicate. The super
intendent communicated with the Naval Pay once.
hut Il was said there that Noble deserter.
and nothing could be done about hi. burial
Noble when he fret came here. visited Mrs J.
Goldman. the mother OF his shipmats on the Ralu-
more Mrs. Goldman says he told her he had %'s
due him as prize money She has gone 10 Mar"
Island 70 induce the naval authorities 10 provide
for Mobiles burial The dead sailors father -
T r Noble Of Gego. ". Va. The body Will cs
held till tomorrow TO await Mrs. Goldmans enor's