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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-22
THE LETTERS WE WRITE
Mako the Game OF Correspondence an
Interesting One.

The receipt OF a letter is no longer
the event 1t was In the old stagecoach
days; railways and the penny postage
have robbed 1t OF all excitement We
have forgotten how to write interest
ing letters as we have how to fold
sheet OF foolscap or sharpen a quill.
Yet at times, on red-letter days, we
find one among the number which de-
mands epicurean perusal; 1t is not to
be ripped open and devoured in haste
II insists on privacy and attention.
This has a flavor which the salt OF
silence alone can bring out; dash OF
interruption destroys its exquisite
delicacy. More than this, it must be
answered while it Is still fresh and
sparkling. Though the fire of such q
letter need have neither the artificial
ity Of flirting nor the intensity of love,
yet 1t must both light and warm the
reader. 1t is not valuable for the news
It brings, for if it be a work of art the
tidings It bears are not so important
as the telling of them. The communi
cation must be spelled in the cipher
OF your friendship, to which you only
have the key. 1t must be writ in the
native dialect of the heart. So one
has not the commonplace view Of
things, and escapes the obvious, it
matters little whether one uses the
telescope or the microscope. One may
deal with macrocosm, discuss philoso-
| ply and systems, or gild homely little
common things till they shine and
| twinkle with joy. Indeed, the perfect
| letter-writter must do both, and
change from the intensely subjective
to the intensely objective point OF
view. He must, as it were, look you
in the eye and hold you by the hand -
Gelett Burgess in Harper's Bazaar.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-22
WIDOW WAS CLUTTONOUS
Devoured Twelve Ears of Corn for
Dinner Every Day

DdJs
All men and women eat. II they
don't they won't last long, and no one
need worry as to whether they count
for much or not. But good eaters are
usually very depend-on-able By good
eaters | do not mean large eaters or
greedy eaters, though | may include
some of both; hut mean the men and
women who enjoy what they eat and
show no disposition, either from dys-
pepsia or other form of Indigestion, 70
quarrel with their food, says John Gill
mer Speed Gluttons, however are not
very lovely. | sat at table once with
a woman at a summer resort who.
every day for dinner, ate twelve ears
Of corn from the cob. That is more
than the regulation midday feed for a
horse. And in the operation she
creased her hands and her cheeks. and
every now and again her nose was
decorated with the well-buttered
grains. She was a sight, and at the
end OF the table she bred a famine
that it took walters to relieve. And
she was in repose not by any means
a bad-looking woman; but in action
in action at the table she was a kind
of human cyclone, leaving desolation
In her path. She had had three hus-
bands and is a widow again. What
became of the poor men never knew.
Maybe she ate characterization.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-22
Fatsehood.

The first sin committed in this world
was a lie, and the first liar wac
devil. The Greeks, who allowed their
dieties almost every weakness an6i
every vice, held that they forfeited
heaven by falsehood, and that an OATH
was as sacred to Jupiter. the cloud
compeller, as to the meanest denizers
OF earth. A regard to truth is the
last of all the virtues, and supposess
high civilization. The savage is full.
Of falsehood. both in word and deed.
the ignorant man will deceive II he
can. but learns, if he promises to per-
form-in other language, to keep hAfS
word when he has given it; an imper--
tant part of truth. but not the whole
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-22
Cheerful Girls.

Good and healthy girls are almost
always cheerful No novelist would
consider his youthful heroine complete
if ringing laugh" were omitted from
the list of her charms; and in real
life the girls who do not laugh now
and then are seldom liked by their
companions. Even beauty will not
save them A belle who fails to un-
derstand the jest Of her admirers and
smiles in amiable bewilderment while
other people are laughing is soon left
with no consolation save to wonder
what anybody can see in her rival-a
girl with "tip-tilted" nose, perhaps,
and a large mouth. and freckles, but
the happy possessor of a pair of merry
eyes and q cheerful mind. The gift OF
gayety is. indeed, of great value; but
It must be gayety which originates in
a kind and chcery heartnot that which
Is born OF mere excitement or gratifed
vanity
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-22
DIRT PASSES FOR BUTTER.
In Many Places of This Globe Where
Primitive People Dwell.

Eating earth is practiced all over the
world to a certain extent, and is not
confined to the clay-eating Indians of
the far west. In some parts OF the
mountains of Germany the natives eat
a certain kind of clay spread on their
bread, calling it "stein butter" stone
butter. In upper Italy and Sardinia
kind of clay is offered in the markets
for sale as food. In Northern Sweden
and the peninsula of Kola q kind of
earth called bergmerl, mountain flour,
is baked with the bread. In Persia, too,
large quantities OF clay are eaten. The
natives of Africa are great clay-eaters,
especially the Botocudos of the Orino-
co river. In Nubia a certain kind of
earth is eaten as a medicine, and on
the island of Timor the eating of earth
is connected with the religious cere-
monies. The cause of this widespread
custom, according to Doctor Lasch. a
German scientist who has just been in
vestigating the matter is that the clay
contains a certain amount of salt.
which tastes good to these primitive
people. The consequence of habitual
earth-eating is a great distention OF
the stomach an increase I'm the lean
ness of the eaters, and distention OF
the liver. When a child of civilized par
ents shows a disposition TO eat earth
or slate pencils, as is often the case,
there is physical cause for IL, and the
case should be brought to the attention
Of the family physician,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-22
Habits of Snakes.

An eminent writer on birds and rep
ly entertained that snakes fascinate
their prey is utterly exploded. 1t would
be somewhat interesting if this gentle
man would tell us what power 1t is
that snakes exert over birds which
draws them against their will within
easy distance of the reptiles jaws.
The writer of this paragraph has seen
birds fluttering in the air above the
heads OF snakes, apparently unable to
resist the influence that attracted
them. Whether il be fascination or
some other force, ii unquestionably eX-
listed, although every one may not have
observed it. Snakes never bite. To
bite would be impossible, from the
formation of their jaws. They strike
from above, fastening their fangs intl
their prey. after which they dispatch
it, ordinarily by swallowing. Many va
rieties OF snakes have the power to
conceal their young in their mouths,
The tiny snakes play about the moth
er's head, and upon the slightest alarm
she opens her mouth, and they imme-
dately vanish, reappearing when the
cause for alarm seems to have been re-
moved. Whether the mother snake
has the faculty OF communicating their
danger to them is not known: in all
probability she has. There are certain
fish that open their mouths and engulf
their small brood when danger threat
ems. The lover of nature finds endless
opportunity for interesting research in
the study of every form of life.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-22
GOOD NIGHT
Sweet Soothing Slumber NJ
Greatest Blessing. J
Nothing Kills so Quickly as Loss Of !
Rest Needed for Repairs. How 70 -
Obtain II Without Fail

When you don't sleep well, look out fo-s
yourself.
Nothing breaks down a person so quick
ly as loss Of sleep, that boon of mankind
which gives the exhausted system rest for
repairs.
No time for repairs means destructio
of the machinery. II is so with the hums
body.
You are nervous, have a load on y,
chest, are troubled with unaccounta
anxiety and forebodings of evil, and
and toss all night. -
Towards morning you have ftful maps
from sheer exhaustion, awake in a colo
sweat, unrefreshed, pallid, trembling
with a bad taste in your mouth and "a
feeling OF great weakness.
It's your stomach, your liver your bows.
els
Keep your digestive organs all on the
move properly and your sleep will be rest
attended to.
The WAY to do II is to use mild, post
tive harmless, vegetable laxative an,
liver acknowledgements Candy Ca
thartic. They make the liver lively. pre-
vent sour stomach, purify the blood, regvc,
late the bowels perfectly. make all thine. !.
right as they should be. -
Go buy and try Cascarets to-day Ite
what they do, not what we say they I'D =
that will please you. All druggists, nc
Csc or soc, or mailed for price. Send Ion
booklet and free sample. Address scr,
ling Remedy Co, Chicago Montreol
Can: or New York. u
This is the CASCARET a
let Every tablet OF the -,
| n r. r. | genuine Cascarets bearM
| u " U | magic letters C 6 c."
n at the tablet before you r
NJ and beware OF frauds. !,
lions and substitute ri "
A.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-22
Open space in London

London enjoys a greater area of
omen space than any other capital In
the world
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-22
llJIt
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MY BEAUTIFUL BAL
Weak Women Made Happy
Pinkham's Vegetable Compa
Letters from Two whS Now
Children.

"DEAR Mrs. PrgKHAM lit was
ardent desire to have a child. I
been married three years and W
childless, SO wrote to you to find o.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-21
.IpPA II ENIL j.

He--Do you believe in early mar
riages?
! She-Yes-but suppose we make i
| high noon!-Chicag News,
Daughter, / notice that Harry isn't
a bit gallant to other women"
mo, indeed, ma I broke him of that
right after we were married. Indian.
apolis Journal.
Mr. BIT is hard to tell woman's
age by her looks.
Mr. b should hope so. Why, this
old hat of mine makes me look like six
| ty.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Mr.. Smith" said a lady at the fair
won't you please buy bouqeut to pre-
sent to the lady you love-
| TT wouldn't be right" said Mr.
Smith. I'm a married man. It'd
Bits.
Hi, there!" exclaimed Johnny's faith
! err, who was grinding the axe. What
are you trying to do?"
I'm trying to turn the grndstone in
rag-time," painted Johnny,-Chicago
| Tribune.
Stubb--How foolish in the ancients to
believe that terrible monsters existed
in the sea
Penn-Oh, don't know; we believe
that they exist in drinking water
Philadelphia Record.
The Jeering world Look Ever Up
ward" proudly proclaimed the banner
of our class "Rubber!" shouted the
jeering world which had met few new
made alumni few times previously
Indianapolis Press.
well, madame, if you positively re-
fuse to tell me your age | suppose | can
inquire of the lady next door and let
her guess at 1t.
Young man, you stand right still
there where you are. III be back in
moment with the family Bible "-~Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Hcks--They have said that Bertoa Is
q man of peculiar views. But It seems
that he can think the same as others
do.
wicks-Po Possibly. What led you to
tina. conclusion?
Hicks When / met him to-day he
said he supposed I hadn't a dollar
wanted to spare, and-really, 1t was
quite a coincidsnee-I supposed 50, too.
Boston Transcriot.
He Was EIlgible.-"Ha! ha! They
served that fellow right" exclaimed
Mrs. Henpeck, as she finished reading
the report of a bigamy case.
what is 1T, my dear9a asked her
husband,
"He was arrested and very promptly
tailed because he took one wife too
many" W.T.
"Heavens / wonder if they'll be af-
ter me next?e-Philadelphi Press
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WOMEN ".yOINERs.o

Women who are "joiners" will not be
pleased by the warning given by Pro-
fessor Franklin Giddings of Columbia
college to the young women of Vassar
college. He warned them against mem
bership in women's clubs in general.
The professor declared that time and
opportunity were squandered in many
organizations and clubs, so that good,
honest work could not be done. BE
cause" said the speaker, 1--WE have at
tached ourselves to many organizations
we think we are doing a great deal
while in reality we are doing nothing.
The better your organization and the
more you are tempted to join it the
poorer you will find it to belong to-"
We think the professor is right, and
we hope his wise words will influence
the young women to whom they were
addressed. They will not have any eff
feet on hardened "joiners" who think
they are busy when they are only fussy.
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NOT VERY DEADLY.

The Mauser rife seems to be a COM
paratively humane weapon. The recov-
cries from wounds inflicted by this
weapon in the South African war excite
the wonder of DR.. Mccormack, the dis
tinguished English surgeon, who spent
some time in the hospitals, The total
the British side, it is stated, UP to May
IL was 10.701. and the deaths were but
number. Wounds of the, chest, abdo-
men and joints, says the doctor, as well
as gunshot fractures, have healed in a
manner which would previously not
have been considered possible. This re-
tile, and it's rapidity, velocity and asep-
tic character. He states that he has
seen probably fifty cases of gunshot
wounds which recovered without inter-
venton beyond antiseptfc occlusion, and
he believes that it should be the rule in
the future to give wounded patients a
chance to recover without operation. In
Uncompiicated cases the best chance of
recovery lies in the patients being let
alone In chest wounds the principle Of
non-intervention and antiseptic occlu-
sion is also advised. A large proportion
of such cases recovered, and the num-
Der of men who have returned to duty
after such wounds is remarkable. He
mentions three cases in which it is diff
neuit 10 understand how the heart
could have escaped penetration unless
the bullet was DETECTED; the patients
made good recoveries. Uncomplicated
gunshot fractures even of the femur
rarely require amputation and few re-
sections We're practised.
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.Rtghtmnu,, Girl.v

-
We have warbed old Barbara Frietche $
In sonnets, and several other ways.
How she stood at her window in Frederick
town
And froze the "rebs" with patriot frown
How she raised cold Glory" in loyal way
And told It's foes it was there to stay!
But now the old Barbara flag we'll furl
And tell the story Of Nightmare girl"
The great sun blazed in the Afric' skies
Like II fiery boil of unusual size,
And sprlnked heat Ger the shimmerng
vedt
That would blister an elephants four-ply
pet.
The British troops on their conquerlng
march
To homes of foemen applied the torch.
Burned out the nests where the Boermen
Came to change their linen and get shave
And i che Rlghtman ranch were the troopers
To burn, but the burning they didn't did.
For there In the door of the old farm place
stood plump Dutch girl with pretty
face!
Her eyes We're hot with defiant fire,
And her bosom heayed with expansive ire!
To the flrebug "Tommies'' she fearless said.
''Iust pull your freight und gone off ahead,
Desc haus was left NIT my sharge, you
BET. '
IND you dond would burn 1t already vet,
'Ynst pass motion and qyick adjourn,
because yc don'd got some houses to burnt"
Up rode Lord Kitchener, grand and great.
With his frown and his dignity both On
straight.
Rode up in his majesty. but the girl
Just gave her lip an additional curl.
And he gazed in her proud and defiant face
And noted her simple, uncultured grace.
And his lion heart melted quickly down
To jelly, and gone was his warlike frown
And he said to his troopers: WHO dares to
scratch
On the bulge of his khaki trousers match
''Wil catch boot In the place which he
Has used for the scratching purpose, see?'
And then to the maiden: my gentle fawn.
weaken! And then to his troops:
March on!''
And there she stood us the troops
marched by,
And oft at herself winked the other eye,
Stood there in defiance until the last
OF the boomn' British had by her passed.
And said as they faded from out her sight.
''Dere aeen no hot times NIT dis old ranch
tonight
Dose standoff work mighty slick, dlnks,
ind das vos list los nit me, by yinks,"
Denver Evening Post.
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Notice to Contractors.

SEALED PROPOSALS will be received
by the Board Of Seectmen Of the town Of
kidgeteld, Conn.,, until 2:30 O'Clock pm. tho
9th Of June, 1900. at the Town Clerks
Office Town Hall of said town, for the CON
structon and macadamizing Of road In
the town Of .Ridge6eld, in accordance with
the plans and specifications approved by the
State highway commissioner. Bids shall
state the price Der lneal foot for finished
road complete, the town through its select.
men and State highway commissioner reA
serving the right TO increase or diminish
the number of feet to be improved after the
contract is let. All bids must be accom-
panied by a bond of not less than one-third
of the total cost of construction No mem
Der of firm submitting a bid will be az
cepted as bondsman. Any bidder refusing
to sign the contract at the prices offered
by him shall be required to forfeit sum
from his bond equal to the difference In
price between his bid and the next highest
bidder Plans and specifications may be
examined at the office of the Town Clerk,
Town Hall In Ridgefeld, or at the office OF
the highway commissioner at Hartford
The selectmen and the highway commits
sioner reserve the right to reject any and
all bids.
Dated at Ridgefeld, June 49, 1890.
JOHN BROPHY,
SAMUEL A. COE,
GEO. A. KNOX,
Selectmen of the town of Ridgefeld Conn.
tpDO
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-21
THE REPURLTCIN pL4TFORM

| The platform adopted at Philadelphia
yesterday is a very interesting docu-
| ment. 1t is we'll written, and much Of
that which is written will make a good
| impression. What the Republican
party has done is strongly and clearly
| set forth, and the record is a grand one.
What the Democratic party has done is
also strongly and clearly set forth and
the record is not a grand one. 1t is as
follows: In asking the American peo-
pie to indorse this Republican record
and to renew their commission to the
Republican party, we remind them of
the fact that the menace to their pros
perity has always resided in Democratic
principles and no less in the general in
capacity of the Democratic party to
sential of business prosperity is public
confidence in the good sense of the gov
ligently with each new problem of ad
ministration and legislation. That con-
fidence the Democratic party has never
earned. 1t is hopelessly inadequate, ana
the country's prosperity when Demo-
cratic success at the polls Is announced
halts and ceases in mere anticipation of
Democratic plumbers and failures.
The platform says gold, of course. 1t
also speaks of further lowering the rates
of interest, which will not please rich
Republicans, who think them quite low
enough already. The declaration con-
corning trusts will be read with great
interest. 1t is moderate, and some will
think tame, but it says all that can fair
ly be said: We recognize the necessity
and propriety Of the honest oo-opera-
tion of capital to meet new business
conditions and especially to extend our
rapidly increasing foreign trade, but we
condemn all conspiraeies and combina-
tions intended to restrict business to
create monopolies, to limit production,
or to control prices, and favor such leg
islation as will effectively restrain and
prevent all such abuses, protect and pro-
mote competition and secure the rights
of producers. laborers and all who are
engaged in industry and commerce.
Protection and reciprocity get some
good words, as do restriction of immi-
grafton, American shipping. liberal
pension policy, civil service, unrestricted |
suffrage, good roads, reduction in war
taxes, an Isthmian canal, the women |
of America, and the Peace conference at |
The Hague. 1t is also announced that |
Cuba shall be free
If there are any Republicans who do |
not like this platform now they will |
become reconciled to 1t when they see |
the Democratic platform.
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PRESERVING AFRICAN WILD AN
TMALS

understand that very satisfactory
ence which is now being held at the
| Foreign Office for the purpose of franz
| ing regulations for the preservation or
wild animals, birds, and fishes in Afri-
ca. It Is expected that three or four
more sttings will enable the conference
to draw up a series Of regulations for
the acceptance of the Governments re-
presented Although all the European
Powers interested in Africa are repre-
| scented at the conference, all are not
| equally interested in the subject, and it
NAV be said that Great Britain and Ger
many are practically controlling the
proceedings. ! understand that the
members make use of English, French
and German In the discussion and that
the polyglot character Of the debate
does not cause any inconvenience, al
though one, at least, of the French4de
Iegates knows no other language than
his own.
I learn that one of the measures for
the protection of elephants on which an
agreement has already been come to,
is the prohibition of the export Of tusks
Weighing less than ten pounds. This
will unquestionably be regulation of
the utmost value, as 1t will discourage
the wanton slaughter of young and i'm
mature elephants by the natives, who,
now that they are able to obtain guns
and ammunitions, are the most potent
agents in the destruction of elephants.
1t is hoped that the export of COW ivory
will be entirely prohibited, and I am
not sure If the conference is prepared to
go to this length.
The composition of the conference has
given rise to good deal of discussion,
as it contains very few members who
have any practical experience of Afri-
can administration and of the condi-
tons of life in Africa Major Won
Wissmann. the principal German dele
gate is, indeed, l believe, the only re-
preventative who has had any large
official experience in Africa and Is at
the same time keen sportsman. Col
onel Bnger, one of the French delegates,
is an explorer, and was for time in
an official position on the West Coast.
but he is, l understand, no sportsman
OF the British representatives Lord
Hopetoun is honorary, president, but
takes no part in the actual work of the |
conference. Professor Ray Lancaster
is a distinguished naturalist who no
African experience of any kink: and
Sir Clement Hill, who is a keen sports
man, has only l believe, paid one hur-
ried visit to Zanzibar and the East
Coast 1t is certainly curious that with !
a larger number of African administra-
tors and sportsmen to draw on than any |
ohter country we should not have been
able to find any one fulfilling both these |
conditions to represent us in a confer