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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-01
DAUGHTERS OF PocAHoNrAs

DAUGHTERS OF POCAHONTAS.
White Fawn Council, Daughters of
Pocahontas, met in their regular sleep
Thursday evening, June 81. with a
fair attendance. The following officers
were elected; Prophet, Louis Pofahl;
Pocahontas. Katie Myers; Venonan,
Rosie Bickler; Pohattan, Fred Eli.
hart; deputy, Anna Maurer. All mem.
bers and friends who wish to go along
to Lorain, July 4, are requested to be
at the A. b. g. waiting rooms ut 4
o'clock sun time.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-01

If you want to buy, sell, rent or ex.
change. advertise in the Democrats
want column --ry
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-11
SMALL INVALID AT CITY HOSPITAL is
tlNGpIsT AND STUDENT.
Reads and Speaks English, German and French, and as a Story
Teller Has Made Himself Famous Among Doctors,
Y4 Nurses and His Fellow Patients.

laborers. to whose minds the stories are az
to the young story-teller.
Any fiction in which a good yarn Is inter-
woven suits Willie. but. like other fmagina-
tive boys. his preference is for the queer
creations found among fairy tales of folk
lore. 'Grimm's Fairy Tales and Arabian
Nights are his favorite books. They bet
ter appeal to his fancy than do rough yarns
about boys who "bluggy themselves up" in
private warfare. or in encounters with high
waymen. or who wade through many bat
ties to win a pink-and-white daughter Of .
Duke. or something.
He forgets all about such tales ~ the lat
ter. but TON Thumb" The Seven League
Boots and "Aladdin's Lamp" stick.
That's fine he said. speaking of "Alad-
din's Lamp"
The reporter pleaded ignorance Of the IA
nous story. and Willie volunteered to tell
about II.
you see.' he began. ALADDIN lived with
his mother all alone. They were poor. aw-
/ full poor. But Aladdin didn't seem. 10 b
able to work. He couldn't hold Q Job. and
his mother used to scold him for not max
ing q living. and she had to work hard ia
support him..
Aladdin didn't drink or anything. but
| somehow he seemed no good.
"wen. once Aladdin was walking IN q
forest . long way from home. and was won
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-11

began to teach him to read French. He
reads the latter more imperfectiy than the
two former His father is John Oheim of
No. S07 South Second street.
The many books and magazines that are
sent to the City, Hospital by charitable
people in the city hate been a great boon
TO Willie. From the first he has made q
more constant demand on the nurses for
hooks than any patient in the ward. and II
was through his multitudinous demands
that his ability to read in more languages
than one became known.
English books that a boy would read ran
low. but a German copy of "Grimm's Fairy
Tales was found. The nurse had no
thought that he could read this. but gave Il
to him as a joke. He did not see the point.
and read all the stories. When he handed
IT back he remarked that he had read the
book before in English. but that the tales
were just as interesting IN German. In like
manner he was given Able C~onstantin" IN
French. He read most Of It. and proved
that he had by showing q partial knowi-
edge Of Its contents, but he did not like It
SO much as Grimm.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-11

Aladdin. TO- 60 down in a cave and get .,
funny kind OF a lamp which was there
Aladdin went down and got the lamp, but
16st as. he was about to get out the man
shut him. in the cave. pulled a big rock over
the entrance. and there was Aladdin down
there with nothing but that lamp.
aladdin thought he was going to die.
but he found out by accident that there.
was a spirit in the lamp. a great big spirie
came up before Aladdin and said: Aladdin.
we will do what you .ssy, 1 and all the
slaves of the lamp Aladdin was afraid,
but he was more afraid that he'd never
get back home again. 'and he SAID he want
ed to get out of that nasty. black hole
What do you thinke The cave opened
and Aladdin got out apd went home aud
had the geen-i-thats What the spirit was
get dinner for his mother, and give him all
the money he wanted.
In this way Willie went Through the whole
marvellous story, keeping fairly close "
the original. a.
Willie's unusual knowledge Of languages
IS due to his percentages His. father is Ger
man. his mother is French, Eeth Ian
guages are spoken In the family. IS wsn
as English. At the same time that'he was
learning to read English in school he was
learning German at home. and when he
could read German and Epslish hi: mother
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-11


WRITTEN FOL THE SUNDAY
WNds Oheim, a lad of . years. who has
hin tor three long months among the sick
ma the dying In a ward at the City Hos
patal and IN this time has not even been
hhle 70 more from one place. reads and
wsaks three languages
Before he was crippled by an accident he
@as healthy. athletic boy. to whom &C
tvfty vas seemingly as essential as food
ma ar, and it'would seem that confinement
should smother his good spirits. but it has
not eous %. He. Is eyer bright and smiling.
He laughs often Hts blue eyes twinkle al
ways with OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ingenious
ness. And his jossome presence in the sick
bay mas endeared him to PATIENTS. doctors
and nurses.
Whether their belief will be borne out. the
patients In wiIlie's ward believe that ne is
. genius IND that his name will one day
6eservedly be writ In large letters among
the names OF famous men.
This belief Is partially doe to the boys
precocity an the matter Of languages. He
reads English, German and French. But
more especially the causes lie In Willie's
marked desire to read and in his ability to
tell. as he sits propped up by pillows. the
stories which be has read. He relates them
20 other sick boys at the hospital. who
group at his bedside to hear. He expresses
the old tales. sirp,ined and in boyish word
Ina but .Ae tate-est carries. Bis bearded
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-11
Stories Of the Manner in Which the Members
~ Of the Big House Party Entertained by
~ MIR, and Mrs. Randolph Laughlin Whiled
~ the Daylight Hours Away.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC
Mr.. Mrs Randolph Iaughhn entertained a house party Of some size Al
the 4aughmn epunuy place some five niles beyond the city limits N the St
Charles Rock road, fF tel days in July.
The members Of the party we're Mr.. and Mrs John Parker. Mr. and Mrs
Charles Van Stuldnqrd, Hiss Josephine and Ralph QuNe, sister and brother Of
AnsHan Suddiford; Miss Emily Hshhy, sister of Mrs Randolph LauShnn
AssnEloke Ware and Garth Bningsly.
There were boatridng, swimming fishing, horseback riding shooting, deer
chastpg, hammock bungins in fact, all the amusements that attract at a well
appointed summer resort with othersa added.
The Iaughnn country place is well adapted fol such diversions. The place
- about 900 acres hall p square mile, in extent about the size Of Tower Grove
Park II contains al Artificial lake that has a shore line of about two miles
It N formed y throwing a dam across III vaney at an expense of some
$4,000 The lake Is fed by twelve big springs and is thoroughly stocked will
bass croppie perch carp and other game fish. One bass taken from the lake
hy the party weighed eight pounds An artificial island protected by a dressed
Stpus curb ia q feature Q the lake.
A deer paddock, COMPRISING eighty acres and containing some forty deer
md . big pack of foxh0unds ire Of the place
The photographs presented Were snapshots taken by members Of the party
md more DELIBERATE pictures taken by j A. Eazenstab.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-11

spsctal Correspondence Of The Suaday Republic
NaStinsville. Ind. Aug. Zone of natures
freaks which had attracted the curious at
tention OF the many visitors to this health
resort for years was destroyed by a recent
violent windstorm which swept the out
skirts of the city. On the Mitchell farm.
about two miles south Of the Courthouse
Square. il q large grove of naples of NAM
moth size and luxuriant foliage. Almost in
the center, until the recent storm, stood
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-11

dering why his mother .scolded so.
II met a man. a big. ugly man. The
man stopped Aladdin and talked nice. to
him, so that when the man said he wanted
Aladdin to do something for him Aladdin
wanted to do 1t very bad. The NAL wanted
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-11

two trees something over twenty feet apart.
As large as the others and as thickiy
ieaved. they we're Joined sixteen feet above
their bases by a common limb. stretching
from one and grated In the other a per-
fectly as though operated on BY some am
bilious horticulturfst- They formed perfect
Siamese twins Of h vegetable Kingdom.
trees were nfty feet high and eighteen
inches In diameter and are believed to have
been about 90 years old.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-20

survey of the resulting effect. "Just
little more this way. There, you look
very well, indeed! I'll be back in min
ute with the children
The novelist, somewhat surprised at
the number of his admirers, shook
hands cordially with each shy guest,
never suspecting for moment that
mercenary Tom, with rabbits in his
mind, had collected penny in advance
for each handshake.
It was the belated minister who. ar
irving upon the scene, discovered the
sign upon the porch and pointed it out
to the astonished novelist, who hap
pened to have, fortunately, a keen
sense Of humor. The sound of their
uproarious merriment brought Mrs.
Barker and Alice to the porch, where
upon Tom and Grace promptly and dis
creetly vanished,
"Well," said Grace, when safe har-
Dor was reached, "we'll probably get
whipped for this, even if we are.too
old; and Alice will go around in state
of modification for the rest of her
natural life, but he wouldn't have
laughed like that if he'd minded very
| much.''
"Anyhow," said Tom, philosophical
~, I'VE took in money enough to buy
four rabbits, and I'm going after them
right now, before anyone tells us not
to."-Youth's Companion.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-20
TIMELY DAIRY NOTES.

The Importance of healthy cows
and sound milk cannot be over-esti-
mated. Too little attention has been
given to the matter in the past.
Butter may look nice, have the cor
rect grain and be sailed to taste. still
if it lacks favor or has a bad flavor
it sells at reduced price, if at all. It
is the fine favor in butter that all
seek after.
The farmer who has a milk, check
coming in every month will tell you
that it is great aid in producing
sound and natural sleep, for it re-
lieves the worry of how to meet the
current expense bills for the house
hold.
Are you testing those cows you are
now milking? Do you know the "star
boarler?" You wouldn't put up with
hired hand who failed to earn you
profit on his wages; then why do
you persist in throwing away valua-
BILE feed on an improbable COW?
If you are in the dairy business to
stay, there is more than one reason
for raising your own calves. You
can not only develop the best milking
strains in this way, but you can be
more sure of having quiet and gentle
cows.-Nebraska Farmer.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-20
A PIKE COUNTY MIRACLE.

velpen, Ind, June 17.-William o.
B. Sullivan, farmer of this place, and
who is brother of ex-Representa-
tive Sullivan, of Pike and Dubois
counties, has had remarkable ex-
perience recently.
Mr.. Sullivan is 40 years of age,
and has been citizen of Pike county
for 80 years. For two years he has
suffered much with Kidney Trouble
and Rheumatism. His shoulders and
side were very sore and stiff, and his
back was SO bad he could hardly
straighten up at all. He had palpita-
tion of the heart, and smothering
which was very distressing. He used
three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills,
and is as strong and well as ever he
was. He pronounces his cure mir.
acle. Mr.. Sullivan's statement of his
case is startling:
"A month ago was a cripple. To.
day can do hard days work every
day, and have not single ache OF
pain"
Dodd's Kidney Pills have done some
wonderful cures in Indiana, but none
more miraculous than that in the
case of Mr.. Sullivan.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-20
THE GREAT AF1ERwHlLE.

An me! the things that we mean to do.
In the great. great afterwhile;
When our ship comes in,
We're sure to begin.
And we'll keep right at It, too.
Yes. yes, my boys. know It is true
That we mean just what we say.
But afterwhile Is mythical place
In the realms of an unborn day.
The railway of life is supposed to run
Through the land of this unborn day,
And the great afterwhile Is station there,
Where people do fine things, they say.
But thousands, my boys, are travelling this
road,
Whose hands are as white as the snow.
Who meant to stop of at the great after
while
In the years of the long ago.
But somehow or other they never quite
reached
The place with the high-sounding name,
80 they travelled along with the rest of the
crowd
Who hunted for fortune and fame.
Yet fortune or fame ne'er came to them.
bows. q
And. neither, will they come to you,
# you wait to begin, in the great after
while, >.
All the grand things you mean to do.
IT'S best, then, to begin right here.
In tbs land of the greater to-day,
And work while you wait, -
For your ship might be late
Then you'd miss half of life, fear.
C. w. Hendricks, in Success
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-20
HUNKS OF SOLID FACT.

cryolite is . mineral found il
Greenland.
Egypt was the first country to have
a military organization.
Skating was sport of the North
men in prehistoric times.
Umbrellas were in use in America
before they were in England.
In ancient times black inks wero
made of SCOT and ivory black.
Lettuce was introduced into Eng
land from Flanders about 1920.
The invention of the organ is at.
tributed to Archime6es, about 220
3. C.
The Phoenicians and the Greeks
were the first to place much depen-
dence on naval warfare.
The mace was weapon anciently
used by cavalry of most nations. It
was originally u spiked club, usually
of metal, hung at the saddle-bow.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-20
Big Victory in Pennsylvania.


After desperate struggle the
farmers of Pennsylvania have won a
victory in the passage through the
state legislature of a strong anti-oleo
bill. 1t was hard and long bat
tie. in which the state grange and
other organizations took part. The
oleo interests were strong and well
organized, and they fought desperate
ly for their fraudulent profits. The
farmers did not have much money.
but they made a brave showing when
they organized for business Why do
we keep on talking about organizing
and getting together?" Because that
is the only way to turn the wrongs
of the farmer into rights.-Rural
New York.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-20
Ground Feed for steers,

One of the most successful cattle
feeders in my neighborhood tells me
that he can make 500 bushels of corn
ground with the cob produce more
beef on his steers and as much gain
in his hogs as will follow the use of
1000 bushels of shelled corn fed un-
ground. He further makes the claim
in favor of so grinding the feed that
his cattle may be put upon full feed
at once, that their digestion remains
in perfect condition and that they
may be finished for market in less
time. This is pretty broad claim
and will bear Investigation by all cat
tie feeders. The ground cob, it is
claimed, takes place Of hay to some
extent and the corn will digest bet
ter.-Nimrod Crigler, in Agricultural
Epitomist.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-20
QUALITY OF BUTTER.
Tests Made ut the 1llinet. Un,vcr.,tx
Station Show That 1t Varies
from Day to Day.

At the agricultural station at
tached to the Illinois university, q
test was conducted last year for the
special object of studying the varia-
tons in the yield and quality of milk
obtained from number of cows
specially selected for the purpose,
and the results obtained were very
curious, and in many respects very
conflicting. The experiment lasted
for a period of close on year. AS an
outcome of the results obtained dur
ing the period the officials having
charge of the researches came to the
following conclusions: /. The yield
of milk from different cows under
the same conditions differs greatly,
and that from the same cow varies
greatly from day to day. 2, The COM
position of milk is highly variable;
the ratio of the fat to other solids,
and that of other solids to water are
not constant as between different
cows or for the same cow on success
sive days. 8. The percentage of fat
or of other solids is not always high
est in the smaller yields, but cows
that give milk with high per cent.
of solids generally show low total
yield. 4. Fat is the most variable
constituent of milk, and its variations
are Independent of those of the
other solids; therefore, the yield
of milk is better intedx of the
other solids than it is of the fat. S.
As regards the first and last milk
drawn, the proportion of solids not
fat is higher in the first, but the pro-
portion of fat is decidedly greater in
the last. 6. Neither day time nor
night time is shown to be superior as
a milk-producing period. 2. Different
cows differ in their power to make
milk from food, and the same COW
varies in this respect from time to
time. 8. Aside from the influence of
food or environment, each animal ex-
hibits individual variations of her
own, and such variations tend to
show something like periodicity in
the separate functional activities of
the animal body.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-20
PITY THE POOR BOY,
whe. He Tries to Teach the Calf {.
Drink from . Pail johnny Has
Troubles Of Hls own.

The time of year recalls the dear,
dead days beyond recall when the
farmers boy taught the calf to drink
from pail. The Britt Na.) Tribune
refers feelingly to these strenuous
moments in the life of our agricultural
youth-moments that teach patience
and kindly dealing with the dumb ami
mails. For the weaned calf is full of
the infinite and eternal energy. 1t de-
sires its sustenance nightly, but it
desires it in the way nature has
taught it to obtain sustenance. The
sight of the pail seems to fill the calf's
mind with forebodings. The calf de-
sires to look up when it drinks. The
farmers son desires it to look down-
ward into the pail. The farmers child
must hold the pail between his feet
with his hands, using two other hands
to hold firmly the cows child to its
milk. When the calf humps it's back
and tries to jump, it is necessary to
hold it down with two more hands.
When it breathes hard into the pail
and blows the milk all out you must
twist its tail with two more hands.
just before calf hunts it wiggles it's
tail. At the. premonitory wiggle the
tail must be held also, meantime keep
ing the calf's head directed into the
pail. The Britt Tribune says:
"Don't get excited; stand perfectly
still, inspiring the calf to confidence
by your GOODNESS and sang froid.
There is nothing equal to sang froid
in the initial lesson, and without this
attribute the pedagogue is sadly ham
pered. There are other requisites, one
of the chief ones being that the
teacher must know more to begin with
than the calf. By following these di-
rections closely calf can be induced
to fill itself with invigorating, life
prolonging milk in very few lessons,
so that it will run its nose clear to the
bottom Of the pail the first bunt."
When you feed calf it is better to
be alone. Especially is it necessary
not to allow the women of the home.
stead to be present. The proceeding
sometimes looks like cruelty, and they
have other methods of calf feeding
that seem more feasible to them, and
they do not hesitate to voice them at
critical moments, thus shaking your
confidence in yourself and incidentally
shaking the Calls already small stock
of confidence in you. It's an art-that
of calf feeding-that has not been
sufficiently treated in the bulletins of
the agricultural department.-Min.
neapolis Tribune.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-20
Law to Encourage EARLY Marriages


Pennsylvania is the latest state that
is trying to encourage and regulate
marriage by new methods. Repre-
sentative Roth, of Lehigh, introduced
bill in the state legislature lately
which provides that male citizen of
Pennsylvania over 40 years old MAX
ing application for marriage license
shall pay to the clerk of courts IL
cense fee of $500. This is to be turned
into the state treasury for the pur-
pose of maintaining homes for women
over 40 years old who have not had a
suitable opportunity or offer of mar
riage and have not means sufficient
to keep themselves in clothes and
spending money. Any bachelor over
40 years who shall go outside of the
state for wife shall pay 500 into the
state treasury. The act is irreyocable
and can never be repealed without the
consent of the majority of the old
women who have been regularly adj
mitted to the homes established for
them.-Chicago American.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-20
THE UNITED STATES "1S."
Excellent Authority for the Use Of
the Singular Noun Given BY
Ex-Secretary Of State.--

Somebody recently criticised Gen.
John w. Foster, the ex-secretary OF
state, because, all through his Seen
fury of American Diplomacy" he treats
"United States as a singular noun, in
stead of as plural one. This has
moved the general to investigate that
often mooted question with some care,
and his conclusion is that, despite the
wording of the constitution, there is
full justification for saying "the
United States u.s." and not "the United
States are" He admits that in the
early days of the republic, while the
fact of it being an aggregation of SOW
ereign states was still prominently in
mems minds, the plural usage was the
common one, but it was not universal,
even in the beginning, and at one point
in the constitution there is the phrase,
Controversies to which the United
States shall be party" not "shall be
parties" as strict consistency would
require, says the New York Times.
Coming to precedents, Gen. Foster
lists, among the statesmen who habit
ually employed the singular form JEFF
ferson, Seward, Blaine, Edmunds, E. j.
Phelps, Webster, Benton, Fish, Free
linghuysen, Motley, Reid, Gresham,
Silas Wright, Marcy, Evarts, Bayard,
C. F. Adams, Depew and Olney-cer-
tainly long and varied category. In
the earlier presidential messages the
plural form prevails, but Andrew Jack
son used the other, and his example, in
this matter at least, has been followed
by his successors, and since Lincoln
all of them have invariably used the
singular verb with "United States"
And the general wants to know why,
if we must write "the United States
|. are,' simply because the constitution
has it that way, we are not also obliged
to write "chuse," instead of "choose,"
and to retain other orthographicappe-
culiarities which appear in the pre-
'cious old document. This is hardly a
fair question, since the use of sis" or
"are'' after "United States" involves
something very different from mere
spelling. Gen. Fosters usage, how
ever, is undoubtedly that of 500 out
of 1000 American citizens of the
present day, and what more or higher
warrant for it does he need than that,
particularly as the facts and the fash
ion are in completed accord?