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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-10
ASKING ron PROJECTION.

Safety Of FqreiEncrs In China q Mat.
ter OF ,Omcial Concern.
Paris. Feb. ga dispatch from Pc
king says the report Of the death Of
Emperor Kwansu is not confirmed.
The dispatch adds that the safety Of
foreigners is not threatened, but that
an English missionary having been
murdered, in the province Of Shantung.,
the British, American, French, italian
and German ministers have addressed
. note to the foreign Office 4asking that
measures be taken by the Chinese au-
thorittes for the safety Of missionaries.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-10
A NEW KIND.

~ .HhEf# .a.r.Eg+
Twas Just the incest valentine
That came to me today;
A pretty box, and on the top
A little letter lay,
Which said:
II know a little maid,
She isn't far to seek:
No dainty wild rose petal
ID pinker than her cheek;
There is no shining hazelnut
That's .browner than her ey-
Just look within the box, my dear,
This little maid you'll SPY"
OF course ] was In haste to zee
So fair and sweet . lass.
I raised the lid, within ! found
Z tiny looking-glass!
Helen 8. Psskini
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-10
A HAPPY

A HAPPY VALENTINE
II I could be a valentine,
I know what l would do.
I'd get into an envelope
And travel straight to you.
And If the postman didn't know
Your name is Baby Dear
And where you live, I'd shake his bag
As soon as he was near. :.
And then with all my might I'd jump
And run across the street.
I'm sure that he'd jump, too, to find
A valentine had feet.)
I'd ring the bell and ring the bell
A minute and a half,
And when you came and saw twas l,
oh, my, how we would laugh!
Anna M. Pratt.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-10
1hE0LDE$Tm MANN america


Isaac Brock, q citizen Of McLennan
county, texas, has lived III years.
He now lives with his son-in-Law at
Valley Mills, Texas.
In speaking Of his good health and
extreme old age, Mr.. Brock says:
"Affer q man has lived in the
world as long as I have, he ought
to have found out q great many
things by experience.
Zone of the things I have found
out to my entire satisfaction is the
proper remedy for ailments that
are due directly to the effects of
the climate.
"During my long life I have
known a great many remedies for
coughs, colds, cafarrh and diar-
rhoa. had always supposed
these affections to be different dis
eases, cut in rearing d.. Hart
mans books I have found out that
these affections are the same and
that they are properly called ca
farrh. .
81 had several long sieges with
the grip. At first I did not know
that Peruna was q remedy for this
disease. When I heard that la
grippe was epidemic catar..h, I
tried Peruna for Ia grippe and
found it to be just the thing.
Gas for Dr.. Harfman'S remedy,
Pe-ru-na, I have found it to be the
best, If not the only, reliable REM
edy for these affections. 1t has
been my standby for many years,
and Iaffribu:e my good health and
extreme old age to this remedy.
Very truly yours,
M1~ &sN,
For free book on cafarrh, address
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus.
Ohio.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10
WHAT IS A woMAN's cIuBi

what is a woman's club? 2" No idle place
Wherein to chatter of the last new play,
Or whisper of a sister gone astray,
Or strip with cruel gossip every trace
Or sweetness from some life borne down with
strife.
IT'S not place where fashion reigns supreme,
Where lack of style Is sin beyond redeem.
Where outward garb is more than inward life;
No room is there for careless Jest or sneer,
For delving into dark days safely past,
Or meaning glances with dire purpose cast,
To cause some trembling soul to blush or fear.
All these are what woman's club is not
Things left behind, outgrowD, despised, forgot.
What ia a woman's club? meeting ground
For those of purpose great and broad and strong.
Whose aim Is toward the stars, who ever long
To make the patient, listening world resound
With sweeter music, purer. nobler tones.
A place where kindly. helpful words are said
And kinder deeds are done; where hearts are
fed;
Where wealth of brain for poverty atones,
And hand grasps hand and soul finds touch with
soul
Where victors in the race for fame and power
Look backward even in their triumph hour,
To beckon others towards the shining goal.
This is woman's club, haven fair
Where toilers drop an hour their load OF care.
What is woman's club? The fabric of dream
Touched with an altar coal and made alive.
Instinct with hope for those who toll and strive
And wait to catch that joyous days first CLEAN
That usherS In better. frcer age,
When right for one shall be for all the right;
When altogether in life's moil and fight,
The war for right and truth shall bravely wage.
Sara Il. Palmer.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10
ESTABLISHED 1850.

as to which moccasin the knife or lit
tie joker is concealed under.
When the knife is hidden to the
satisfaction of the player, he sudden
ly calls out "Ho !" in loud voice,
and the singing drops to low MUIR
muir. One of his opponents is pro-
vided with a short stick and he raises
it threateningly over the moccasins,
first over one, then over another,
while all conversation ceases and
every eye is fixed intently upon him.
The interest becomes more and more
intense as this by-play proceeds antil
finally the man with the stick places
one end of it under the lnoccasion he
selects and turns it over. Should the
knife be found under it, he wins, and
the former player relinquishes to him
the a4Aesss1.,;l..5 and AIifS, tVs Sl1t~-
with the stakes. It is thereupon his
privilege to hide the knife, while his
opponent must guess at its location.
This reversal in position gives the ma
tive player much better chance to
come out even on he play than the
average fakir who works the game at
country fairs is disposed to allow his
victim.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10
Tw0-CENT STAMPS.


The following is from the pen of
ex-Postmaster General James A.
Gary:
It may not be out of place to give
an illustration of the vast distance a
letter may travel on the strength of a
two-cent postage stamp. Suppose
one of the girl readers of the Comban-
zon In Key West, Florida, has broth
er in the Klondike region who has
rlsked all to dig fortune from mother
earth, and wishes to tell him the
news from home. She drops the let
ter In the post Office at Key West and
1t starts on its long journey.
1t does not of necessity travel in
straight line to its destination, but
must follow the twistings and turn
rags of the railroads, which have com
plete charge of it until the northwest
corner of tine State of Washington is
reached. When it arrives at Seattle it
has passed through fourteen states,
and yet, SO far as time is concerned,
but one-fourth of the journey has been
accomplished.
1t now takes sea voyage from
Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, and from
the latter place is carried as have al
ready described, to Circle City. 1t
may be taken into the Klondike coun-
try and finally delivered to the anxi
Gus brother, who has been eagerly
awaiting the arrival of the next party
from the nearest town in which a post
Office is conducted, in the hope that
some one would bring him letter.
This letter has travelled in the
neighborhood of 7, 900 miles-by rail
road, steamboat, horseback, stage and
perhaps dog sleds, and has been on
the road for nearly forty days without
a moments rest. No profit in money
accrues to the government for deliv-
ering that letter indeed each letter
sent into the Klondike costs the gov
erment for transportation many times
the amount of postage charged but
in such cases should we reckon the
profit only in dollars and cents?
Should we not consider the happi-
ness and satisfaction afforded this
brother as he sits by his fire, perhaps
homesick and lonely but now with
loving smile Illuminating his face as
he reads and reads again every word
his thoughtful sister has written of
home, father, mother, and perhaps
some one else whom he holds dear?
When, finally, he places his treasure
under his pillow and seeks rest, he
is happier than for many day; and
Uncle Sam, who has contributed so
largely to that happiness, does not re-
gret what pecuniary loss he has sus-
tanned. YOUTHS Companion.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10
GEESE ON THE FARM.

Not nearly so many geese are seen
to-day Oil farms as were seen several
years ago the breeding of this noisy
fowl has greatly decreased and there
are dozens only now where perhaps
hundreds used to be. Somehow or
other an almost universal disapproval
of the goose has been brought about
among farmers wives, who usually
manage that branch of the business,
and they are nearly so enthusiasticin
outstripping their neighbors in the
number of goslings. There are sew
eral reasons for the diminution of
geese and their decreased breeding on
the farms They are, first, very
unclean, filthy, noisy and meddle-
some fowl, communicating stock water
if given access to it, scattering their
feathers about the premises, deposit
ing excrement wherever they most do
congregate, and that is usually around
the kitchen door, or, at all events, in
the yard, and as a table fowl they are
not very popular, being excelled by
the turkey, chicken and even the
duck.
But the goose has a place on the
farm it has a value and may be
grown with profit, as many could
testify. Feathers will bring from 80
to 40 cents per pound and geese on
foot will bring from five to seven
cents per pound, from 90 cents to 81
each. A fatted goose will range in
weight from 10 to IS pounds, IL
pounds being about the average. If
geese can be raised about the barn or
considerable distance from the
house, in special pasture arranged
for them, having water, forage and
house for winter occupancy, we be-
lieve it will pay to raise them, though
there is more money in chickens be-
cause there is better demand for the
meat and the greatest consideration is
the egg yield.
The chicken has three distinct val
ues for eggs, flesh and feather,
while the goose possesses only the last
Two, feathers being perhaps its most
profitable products. Geese, however,
have no more business near the house
and in the yard than have swine or
COWS.
Your WRONGS cannot be forgiven
unless you forgive others.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10
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FOR FAT AND LEAN.

10 cover your Scrawny neck with
soft pink cushion of flesh, eat cereals
and sweets, exercise the neck muscles
by slowly moving the head in each di-
rection, and rub all the lanoline into
the pore you can.
To reduce your double chin, take
away you pillow at night, skip your
midday luncheon, and message the
throat with firm upward strokes fif-
teen minutes each day. 1t will take
months.
AS aids to flesh building potatoes
taken at each meal, especially when
milk and butter are added, can not be
rivaled. Liquids are excellent flesh
formers.
Stout persons should substitute
toast for fresh breads, and even of
that eat as little as will suffice. New
er drink at meal time if you would
grow thinner.
The girl with ugly hollows and
deep shadows around her collar bone
should take the arm gymnastics.
Outward and upward, four times,
then to either side. Singing lessons
have often worked magic upon SEEM
in9ly impossible throat.
The ungraceful carriage of nine
tenths of the stout women adds about
10 pounds to their avoirdupois in ap-
pearance. 1t seems very singular i'll
these days that any self-respecting
woman should throw out her abdo-
men, when, by Slight forward poise,
she might keep it in line.
Cocoa butter is only a degree less
fatteping III than German lanoline and Esd
clans commend it nign1y. Olive oil
is good, also, but lanoline is the quick
est known fesh-forming application.
Before using see that the pores are
open; else how could it benefit?
Let the lean girl who sits in judg-
ment upon her own physique take
courage. She can have all the candy,
creams, sweets and good things she
wants, and, if she will, acquire a
rounded figure by reading up'' the
lists of fesh-building edibles.
Obesity is a stubborn disease, and
needs heroic treatment, beginning
from within. Stopping certain foods
alone will never cure "fat." The
liver and the blood must be taught
new workings. A little too much
flesh is not obesity, and is easily rem
edied.
Beverages containing lemon or lime
juice should be chosen by the stout
woman. The acidity is useful because
it allays thirst and reduces the con-
sumption of water. Apollinaris and
vichy are better still.
Tight lacing is bar to all known
physical efforts. The circulation is
cut off literally, and the flesh pushed
entirely out of place. To exercise in
a corset is foolhardy.- Exchange.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10
CHARACTER IN RED HAIR.

Red haired women are ardent and
vivacions, especially if with it they
have hazel eyes, in which case they
have a bright and quick intelli-
gence. They have great deal of
natural felicity for study, and good
memories. Red hair with blue eyes
shows the same warmth of character,
but not so much intelligence bright
golden hair, of a rich, deep color and
of crisp and waving texture, grow
ing thickly on the head and some
what low on the brow, shows an ar
dent, poetic and somewhat artistic
temperament. 1t is the signature of
Apollo, the sun. People with red
brown hair which is very thick, and
redder over the ears and at the tenn
pies than on the head, are courageous
and energetic. This sort of hair gives
sense of color in painters, force of
language and eloquence in poets, and
power in musical composition. WI
M. Clemens.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10
HE KEPT HIS SEAT.

A man who had not been to church
for a very long time finally hardened
to the persuasions of his wife, and de-
cided to go. He got the family to-
gether and they started early. Ar
irving at the church there were very
few people in it, and no pew openers
at hand, so the man led his family
we'll up the aisle, and took possession
of nice pew.
Just as the service was about to be-
gin, a ponderous looking old man
came in, walked up to the door Of that
pew and stood there, exhibiting sur
prise that it was occupied. The oc-
cupants moved over and offered him
room to sit down, but he declined to
be seated. Finally the old man pro-
duced card, and wrote upon it, with
pencil:
II pay for this pew"
He gave the card to the strange oc-
cupant, who, had he been like most
people, would have at once got mp
and left. But the intruder adjusted
his glasses, and, with a smile, read
the card. Then he calmly wrote be-
meath it:
"How much do you pay year?"
To this inquiry the pompous old
gentleman, still standing, wrote abb
ruptly:
"Ten pounds
The stranger smiled as though he
were pleased looked round to COM
pare the pew with others, and admir-
ed its nice cushions and furnishings,
and wrote back:
II don't blame you. 1t is well
worth it."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10
WHEN PAW WAS A BOY.
! wisht at I'd been here when
L.

] wisht at I'd been here when
My paw he was boy;
They must of been excitement then
When my paw was boy:
In school he always took the prize,
He used to lick boys twice his size
l bet folks all had bulgin' eyes
When my paw was boy.
They was lot of wonders done
When my paw was a boy;
How grandpa must of loved his son,
When my paw was boy
He'd git the coal and chop the wood,
And think up every way he could
To always jist be sweet and good
When my paw was boy.
Then everything was in its place,
When my paw was boy;
How he could rassle. jump and race,
When my paw was boy
He never. never disobeyed;
He beat in every game he played
Gee What q record they was made
When my paw was a boy!
wisht at I'd been here when
My paw he was a boy;
They'll never be his like agen-
But still last night heard my NAV
Raise up her voice and call my paw
The worst fool that she ever saw
He ought of stayed boyl
-Chtcdgo Times Herald.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10
A FELLOWS MOTHER.
a7thump, or a bruise, or fall in the dirt.

IA fellows mother has bags and strings,
Rags and buttons. and lots of things;
No matter how busy she is, she'll stop
To see how well you can spin your top.
"She does not care-not much, 1 mean
If fellows face is not quite clean;
And If your trousers are torn at the knee,
She can put in patch that you'd never see.
"a fellows mother is never mad,
And only sorry If you're bad;
And I'll tell you this, if you're only true,
She'll always forgive you whate'er you do.
''I'm sure of this" said Fred the wise,
With manly look in his laughing eyes,
"I'll mind my mother every day;
A fellows baby that won't obey"
Kansas FdTn6T
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10

A SMALL boy in the mission Sun
day school of Bishop Fallow's church
propounded an entirely new theory
last Sunday.
"Who made man?" asked the
teacher, beginning as in the good
old days when orthodoxy used cate
chisms.
God" was the prompt reply.
"And how did he make him ?"
"Out O. dust, ma am nothing but
dust"
"And who made woman %
"God made her, too"
"How?"
The small boy hesitated, and then
replied cheerfully: "He caused deep
sleep to fall upon man and then took
out his backbone and made the wo-
man"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10

WISE men ask questions and fools
answer them. Fools give advice and
wise men follow it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10

"MRs. CANTER doesn't seem to be
rising rapidly in society,"" mo, she
hasn't learned yet how important it
is to snub the right people" /"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10
CLEVER ADVERTISERS.

A clever advertising scheme was
employed by firm in a southern
city. The junior partner of the firm
swore out a warrant for the arrest Of
the senior partner on the ground that
he was selling goods below cost and
that the firm was constantly losing
money thereby.
The case came up in court, and the
counsel for the senior partner asked
for a postponment in order to have
more time to prepare the case. The
Judge granted the request, bail was
fixed and the senior member released.
As he left the courtroom the junior
partner arose and exclaimed: eff he
is released, the sacrifice will go OH !"
The news soon spread, and the firm
did better business.
When the case was again called, no
plaintiff appeared, and the case was
dismissed. The firm had succeeded
in their object. advertisement.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10

To DO a thing right watch how it is
done and then do it yourself.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10

HUSBAND Crushing into the room)
-"Come out, quick ?"
Wife" whats the matter ?"
"The house is on fire, and we will
be burnt to death if we hesitate a
moment. Run for your life !"
Eyes, I'll be out in minute. I've
got to tidy up the room little, so
that it will look decent when the fire.
men get here"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10

AN EXCHANGE tells us that the
proper method to keep apples in win
ter is to wrap them in old newspapers
so as to exclude the air. The news
paper, however, must be one on which
the subscription has been paid, other
wise dampness resulting from what
is "dew" will cause the fruit to spoil.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-10

ToM-"What do you think she did
when l asked her to let me be the
light of her life ?"
Jack-"Don't know. What !"
Tom-"Turned me down"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-10-15
Principles to Control
Future Flying Machine

Ii has long been evident that II man
Is to navigate the air 1t must be done
after the method Of the albatross rath-
err than that OF the humming bird, by
the aeroplane and not by any device to
initiate the strokes Of birds wings,
for not only do the largest birds and
those of the longest flight for the most
part sail and soar, but 1t is apparent
that the limit of size in vibratory
wing must soon be reached, since in
strong wind with Its varying eddies 1t
would be quite out of the question to
manipulate such piece of mechanism.
The mode of propulsion may be, I'M
doubtedly will be. as entirely different
from a wing as the propeller is unlike
the tail of a fish. and as the study of
fish has thrown little or no light on
the problems of the proper form or
best motor for a ship. I; is doubtful II
the study OF birds will do more for the
aerodrome. Nor does It seem likely
that a study Of the bird will suggest
any new devices in the way of joints,
braces or rudders. for what must be
discouraging to those engaged in solv-
ing the problems Of flight is the utter
inadequacy OF tn ebird's wing, from a
mechanical standpoint. for the work 1t
is called upon to do, FOR in all its ar
ticulations there is a freedom of move
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-10-15
NORTH POLE EXPLAINED.

Andrews had been dining for some
weeks at favorite Italian restaurant,
and was great chums with the proprl-
etor. One night at dinner the latter ap-
preached Andrews table
How do you do, Meesteur Andrews?
Yer glad to see you. EXCUSE mi, Mceg-
teur Andrews, bot like tot ASK IA
vor, eef you plees"
Andrews told him he would be de-
lighted
Il tank you. Meesteur Andrews. !
like to ASK, eef you plces, wat ees a
pol bear"
"A polar bear?" said Andrews. "Why,
he's "a bear, you know, n big, white
bear"
"Yess, Meesteur Andrews, I know. Ex-
do"
What he does?" said Andrews
why, he-he lives up at the north
pole"
EXCUSE mi. Meesteur Andrews. 1 no
care were e ieef. like know wat
ees a pol bear, wat e do?"
"Oh. what he does" said Andrews
| Well. he's up there at the north pole
you know. He just sits around on the
Ice"
"Aw-hc sect on the Ice? You mus
EXCUSE mi, Meosteur Andrews, I donnc
de Engleesh moch. like know, eel
You plees. wat else . do wen e NJ
sect on dthe Ice"
What else he does?" said Andrews
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-10-15
VESSELS IN PORT.
ARMY AND NAVY.

ANN L AAND NhNi
U. s. S. lroquois, Pond, Midway Island.
Aug. 5.
MERCHANTMEN.
(This list does not include coasters.)
Andrew Welch, Am. bk., Drew, San
Francisco, Aug. IA. c. Brewer &
Co.
Abbie Palmer, Am. bk., Uhlberg, New
castle, Sept. IS.
City Of Hankow, Br. sp., Thompson.
Newcastle, July %. W. G. Irwin &
Co.
Dominion, Br. bk., Rodd, Newcastle.
Oct. 9. Coal to order.
Fort George. Am. sp., Morse, Oyster
Harbor, Sept. 2S. LIS. N. Co.
Halcyon, Am. schr., Chas. Mellin, Eu-
reka, May 81.
Invincible, Am. sp., Mackenzie, New
castle, Aug. "a. Coal to order.
J. B. Brown, Am. sp.. Knight, New
castle, Aug. IA. Coal to order.
J. NJ. weatherwax, Am. schr. Sorenson
Port Blakeley. Aug. 81. Levers 8
I Cooke.
Kilmory, Br. sp., Corrance, Liverpool
Aug. 7. II. Hackfeld & Co., Ltd.
Luzon, Am. schr., Anderson, Gray {
Harbor, Oct. 3. Levers & Cooke.
Macpherson, Br. sp., Mcdonald, New
castle, Oct. 1. Coal to order.
Olympic. Am. blk. Gibbs, San Francis,
co, Sept. 20. II. Hackfeld Il Co., Ltd
Philadelphia, Ger. sp., Wachter, Giles
termunde, Germany, Aug 4. H.
Hackfeld & Co., I'd.
Rosamond, Am. schr., Ward, SAD
Francisco, Oct. 8. T. II. Davies & Co
Sebastian Bach, Br. bk., Nagasaki, Feb,
ruary II.
Skagit, Am. bkt., Robinson. Port Gam.
bic, Sept. "a. Wilder & Co.
Stjohn, Nor. bk.. Ellefsen, Newcastle
Sept. 80.
Star Of Russia, Am. sp., Mortensen
Newcastle, Oct. 3. Coal to order.
W. G.. Irwin, Am. Big. Generaux. Sar
Francisco, Sept. 20. W. G. Irwin &
Co.
w. H. Dimond. Am. bkt. Hanson, sar
Francisco, Sept. 30. w. G. Irwin
Co.