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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

Happiness cannot be bought, but one Of the
great hindranees to its attainment can be re-
moved. by Adams Pepsin Tutti Fruit.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

Is are alike TO PUTNAM FApELEss
aey color all tibers at one boiling.
druggists.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

J. Q. Simpson, Marques, W. Va, says
Halls Catarrh Cure cured me of very bad
case OF catarrh." Druggists sell it, 75c.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

When the serfs were freed in Russia,
the Government paid on an average SIS
for 20, 70O, 900 of them.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

orld's stock Of paper money !
100000, equal to the existin
,old coin.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

The rate at which some people live i.
only regulated by the question Of how
much credit they can get.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

Only three weeks are required to de-
Velop perfect mosquito from the egg.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

limitations of American products are
being sold in Sweden in large quantities.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible
medicine for coughs and colds. M W. SAMUEL
Ocean Grove, N, j., Feb, II, 1900.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

An oil well and an orator are neither {
them much good unless they spout.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

III You Have Dyspepsia
Send no money, but write DR.. shoop, Racine
Wis, Box 148, for six bottles of DR.. Shoop's
Restorative; express paid. If cured, pay $5.5
| If not, II Ia free.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

A fellow doesn't have to take music les
sons to sing his own praises.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

Cape Colony has 10000 acres of vino
yards, with 90,000;000 vines.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

Cheap in Price,
edicino worth its weight in gold is
ard Water. Many have been re-
Ierfsct health by its use.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18
For M0Bt Hands,

Girls who are troubled with moist
clammy hands should use o plentiful
supply of borax in the washing water
busting afterwards with boracic acid
powder or with the best borated tai
cum powder. Old gloves worn at night
are sometimes successful in whitening
and softening rough hands; oatmeal
water allowed to dry on the hands
also an excellent bleacher.
Through missionary influences in
Japan new police regulations now
make it possible for inmates of houses
Of legalized vice, hitherto hopeless
slaves, to leave at their option. Chris
4 tan reformers have freed at least 40
such unfortunates during the past two
months.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

About 100000 cattle are now to b.
found in the Argentine Republic.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

Even the tall cashier may be short in bis
accounts
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

Four bushels Of potatoes contain til,
same amount Of nourishment as bushel
of wheat
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

AFMMh REWARD tyBankof SnnS50
published
~SWSV Mission LYDIA E. PEKHAM MEDICINE CO.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

MEHMF ALI bowel troubles. appendicitis bill.
HnHHRE iousness, bad breath, bad blood, wind
EHaHMH Oh the stomach, bIeated bowels. foui
yssaa mouth headache, indigestion, piInples,
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starter for tho chronic ailments ana long years Of
suffering that como afterWarda. No matter what
ais yous start taking CASCAEsETS to-day. for Won
will never get well and be well oil the dime until
with OAsCARETS to-day, under absolute guar.
antee 20 cure or money refunded. ~.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

entirely periodical suffering it does not
the nature that should suffer Lyd
Pnhams Vegetable Compound the thorough female
medical relieves the condition which produces
discomfort robs menstruation Of its terrors.
pubhd should who suffers
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

tite poor, sick at
st ON CHI every
morning, every.
thing l eat hurts
me, am very weak,
thin, and sallow.
" l have tried .
doctor, but he did
not seem to do me
any good" MISS
MAGGIE POLLARD,
$40 So. 4th st.,
Richmond, Va.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

Aug. 6, 1898.
"DEAB MRS. P1NKHAM: Il have
suffered since the age of sixteen with
painful menstruation. I have been
treated for months, and was told that
the womb had fallen a little. The
doctor says that is now in place again,
but still have the same pain. Please
tell me what to do."- Mrs. EMMA
KUEHL, liz Trsutman St., Brooklyn,
e. D., NY.
Jan. 10, 1899.
"DEAB MRS. PINKHAM After re-
ceiving your reply to my letter OF
Aug. 8 1 followed your kind advice,
and am glad to tell you that l have
been cured of the severe pain at time
Of menstruation through the use of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. I have taken six bottles of
It. felt better after the first bottle,
and after a while had no more pain
OF womb trouble.
81 had doctored from the age of six
teen to tWenty-six, and had lost all
hope, but your medicine has made
me well.
II would like to have you use my
testimonial, SO that others may see,
and be inspired with hope, and take
your medicine. Mrs EMMA KUEHI,
l12 Trautmap st. Brooklyn, E. D. my
Feb. 20, 1900.
az saw your medicine SO highly
recommended / thought l would write
to you for advice.
any menstruation occurs every two
weeks, lasts week, and is painful. ]
have been troubled in this way fo1
some time. l suffer from sick head.
ache and backache all the time, appe.
II there is anything about your C
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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

l was troubled
ss,irregular and
painful menstrual
alton, and leu
corrhoea. The
doctors medicine
did me no good.
l have taken one
bottle and O half
of your Vegetable
Com po u n d, and
t h a n k 5 to your
medicine 10y pains
are gone. l advise
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

some time suffer from sick head Vegetable
ache and backahe all the time, j. PBBLE, ndianoa Ill
there anything about you special
sdV write Pnkham.
person
ing female ILLS shs had She has helped hundreds thousands
women back health Her address Mass
You foolish you not accept
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18

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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-05-18
April %, 1900.

"since receiving your answer to
my letter l have been taking your
Vegetable Compound, and it has done
me more good than any medicine !
have ever taken. My menses are all
right now, and appear once q month,
and feel so much stronger. l shall
always praise your medicine. ~ Miss
MAGGIE POLLARD, $40 So. 4th St.,
Richmond, Va.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
That English schoolboy.

A boy. aged ten. thus answers a
question as to the cause OF the Trans.
aal disturbances: Kruger and Kan
nerbulism is one. He is n man OF
blud. Mr.. Chamberlain has wrote to
him sayin come out and fife or else
give up the blud of the English you
have took. he is boardutchman and
a wickid heethin. lord Kitchener has
sent for his CORY blud and to bring
back his scanderlus he'd ded or alive
An essay on Mr.. Gladstone by boy
OF eleven states: Mr.. Gladstone lovd
Everybody. he lovd publIcuns and Gin.
ners and irishmen. he wanted the
irish to come TO England and have
home rool. but Mr. Chamberlain says.
no. no. so alars he got his biud M
and killd Mr.. Parnel Mr.. Gladstone
died with great Inspect and is burrid
in Westminster with pieceful ashes"
The boy writer OF the following is
decidedly backward in his Tennyson.
Concerning the late poet laureate he
writes: "Tenyson wrote buteifull poims
with long hair and studid so much
that he sed mother will you call me
airly dear? his most gratist poim is
called the idle king. he was made a
lord but he was a good man aud wrote
many hoads. he lovd our dear Queen
so much that he made a poim to her
called the fairy Overwhelmingly
Journal
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
Advertising N Tailor.

A remarkable parsonage made his
appearance down in the financial dis
trict of New York City recently. He
is still going tho .. .lnds of the town.
He is Il singularly good-looking, we'll
built man of thirty, with a smooth.
well-shaven face and "a smiling pair
of brown eyes. He walks into your
office and waits for you 10 look up
from your desk and say "WellT He
smiles pleasantly at you, and inquiries:
How do you like this suitT
You look at the suit, ana you per
ceive that it is an admirable specimen
of the sartorial art-cloth of fine tex
turc. cut tip-top, 1T perfect. But you
can't see the point. of course, OF the
query of this total stranger To you.
The suits all right" you probably
reply. But what of it,"
Nothing. except that ii cost me only
twenty dollars, and had IL made ~:
shears" the man replies, in the most
polite sort OF way, II the same time
handing you one of Shears business
cards: ane then. with most gracerul
bow. he passes out. leaving you in
natural state of wonder. The scheme
Is said To have paid Shear-which. OF
course. is not his name-so well that
he has quadrupled the size OF his
tailoring plant.-Wasbington star.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
I.cord-u.eahing Consu,ship.

The death OF Horatio ]. Sprague.
Consul at Gibraltar. Spain. brought
out statements that no case was ON
record in which a Consulship had been
kept in one family so long as the
Gibraltar Consulship had been in the
Sprague family. State Department
ohicials announced that the sprague
record Is broken by that OF the Fox
family az Falmouth. England. The
Fox family has held the Falmouth
Consulship almost as long as the
United States has been nation.
In 1924 President Washington APP
pointed Robert Fox Consul nj Fal-
mouth. Fox was succeeded Ivy his
son. The son OF the latter. Howard
Fox. became Vice Consul IN 1868,
eerving under his father. and on the
latter's death. In 1874. Howard Fox
succeeded to the Consulship. He stu
holds Il. In June Of last year his son.
II. Barclay Fox wac appointed vice
and Deputy Consul M Falmouth.
For more than n century there has
peen continuous pressure from out
siders 10 get the Consulship away from
the Fox family. aud there have been
many applicants fec the place.-New
York Times.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
A HARD LIFE.
Ti,o r1entai AMI Physical Hardships c.
Mail Car Clerks.


Tho llfc OF a railway mail clerk or
route agent at the best is not easy,
says contributor to Golfers Weekly.
He travels under constant strain
and Is subject 20 unremtting mental
and physical hardship. lie is always
overwcrked, but he must he ever
alert, expert and accurate. The busi-
ness Of a continent depends on the
correctness OF his instantaneous
mental processes, and his rapid ma
nlpulations-a letter "mlsthrown"-
may break heart or burst bank
or ruin railway corporation.
The lurching OF cars going at tre-
mendous speed around sharp curves.
the continued succession of efforts to
maintain equilibrium, the monotonous
vibrations, terribly destructive to
nerve tissue, to spinal column and to
brain texture, are the daily and hourly
concomitants OF his ordinary work.
Probationers often relent and 60 back
to their former duties. One aspirant
for employment in this field was as
signed to notably rigorous route. He
never finished his trip. He went half
way, bought ticket for home and re-
turned rs n passenger. Replying after
ward TO some questions as to he labor
involved. he replied: Lifting and un-
locking 200 pound pouches, shaking
out contents. locking same, carrying
on mail matter. rearranging sacks,
then going over the same work. con-
tinung the same seventeen hours
without rest. with trains flying around
curves and singing you against every
thing that Is not slung against you"
Vigor. vitality and resolution are es-
sential in n beginner as Well az Keen
est intelligence and upwearled spirit
of application. But the physical quail
ties are slowly sapped and undermined
by such steady exactlons of duty, and
the mental qualities are proportionate-
ly deteriorated.
Hence the railway mail system Is a
huge Gorgon. necessarily, cruelty de-
vouring specimens of the best man
hood of the nation. Under present
conditions 1t must continue to demand
and devour in order that the curren
OF trade and the tides OF civiliZa-
tion may continue 10 flow. suspend
the man wrecking process single
week for needed, universal rest and
social chaos would ensue.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
was your Thomas Jefferson? How

II was your Thomas Jefferson? How
funnyw
Grandmother Briggs readjusted bel
glasses and leaned forward. her din
old eyes flashing and her wrinkled
hand pressed TO her heaving chest. A
| moment later a tall old lady stepped
| firmly down side aisle, her head
| erect. her lips tightly compressed. her
| fingers clenched In the palms OF her
hands and look OF fierce wrath and
determination on her somewhat wrin.
killed. face.
A door led from the end OF the aisle
10 the platform, and Grandmother
Briggs disappeared fsithin this door.
way. The next moment she was seen
coming from between the gaudily
painted wings OF the stage. Thomas
Jefferson was unaware OF her pres.
ence on the stage until she had grasped
him firmly by the wrist with one hand
while she snatched of his poorly con.
structed wig with the other and flung
IL across the row Of lamps that served
az footlights. -
Then she gave his ears a sound slap,
and said. You come along with me.
you-you-you play-actin' thlDgw
Too dismayed for words or resist
ancc, Thomas Jefferson suffered him.
self to be led from the stage, while
the audience screamed with laughter
over the great Surprise Number" Of
the program.
Before the laughter had Cied away
the danscusc and his GRANDMOTHER
were going down back ctairwey Of
the hall. and Grandmother Briggs was
saying, "Co right home, sir! OF all
the performances ! ever see! Don't
you lock purity? Oh, I'll settle with
your
The exact nature cf this settlement
was never made public, and IL ,Ia3 not
much rcconpcngc 10 Thomas Jefferson
10 know that hc had helped 10 make
the Dillcy benefit such slcccss that
the elk yCUng Dilleys went on their
westward way the ne=t week With a
purse of money amply filed.
Tbcy are men and women now, end
Thomas Jcfer-on has children OF his
own. Fis perceptions arc clearer and
trucr tlan they once were. Gnd he
frankly ADMITS that his GRANDMOTHER
cervcd him right. l.. Barbour, in
NoLth'S CCDo1nio1.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
Fairy Song.

II is the queen OF fairyland.
The queen and all her eltin band;
IL il not Just the leaves that blow,
Nor lust the winds that echo So
Nay, but the folk Of fairyland.
They come from out the Long Ago,
They come when winds are whispering low,
Good children hear their football still,
Across the valley, down the hill,-
The fairy folk from Long Ago.
All clad in green and dafodil,
They ride athwart the moonlight chill;
But il is summer when they pass,
And waking birds, and springing grass
With folk of green and daffodil.
Lillian Corbett Barnes, in Churchman.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
The Autonatom Cbess-Piaver,

Tudor jerks, writing of "A Modern
Magician" (Robert Houdin) in the Sr.
Nicholas, has this to say of a famous
rick of one of Houdn's predecessors.
This was the "Automaton Chess-play.
,r' that had once set all Europe guess.
ng. Houdin explains this trick. The
dgure was Turk, apparently too
small to hold n man inside. and 1t
played chess successfully against the
best players In the world-being rarely
beaten. But the whole contrivance
was a mere deception. The figure was
aoved by a Polish officer. refugee
who had lost both legs in battle. and
was therefore able TO pack himself
snugly into the hollow figure or into
the chest upon which il sat. While
the inside of the Turks body was ex-
amined the officer was slowed in the
box below, and he climbed up into the
Turk when the box was inspected.
Thus hidden. the officer played chess
against Catharine OF Russia while that
Empress was offering n reward for
his capture. 1t is said the imperial
chanical TUX lost his mechanical TEN.
Ger and swept the chessmen from the
board
Afterward Catharine ordered the fig
ure TO be left in her palace. NJ. de
kempelen being thus forced to carry
OF the real player in packing-box.
The next day probably after the EN-.
press had tried in vain to discover the
missing link'O Kempelon explained
that the chess player required his own
personal attention. and thus persuaded
her Co let IL gor'
A circumstance that helped 10 fool
the public was the fact that the Polish
officer wore artificial legs while out
of the figure.
This chess automaton was o-ce
owned by Napoleon Bonaparte. came
twice 10 this country. and in 1854 was
burned In Philadelphia.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
A Poetry Game.

Here is n delightful 'and interesting
game for an older member Of the fam
lily to play with group Of children.
Take as many sheets Of paper as
there are children, and the older per-
son must then write en- each sheet
several stanzas Of poetry, leaving n
wide space between the lines. Then
cut the sheets into strips of one line
Of poetry each. The strips containing
the first line Of each stanza are given
to the children, who then leave the
room, while all the other strips are
hidden in mysterious places about the
room. When they return the children
proceed to hunt for the slips necessary
to complete the stanza of poetry, the
first line of which they hold in their
hand. On the slip which is guiding
them is number indicating the num-
ber Of lines which complete the stanza,
so, for instance. If the stanza is of
four lines, there will be the number
four on the slip given to the child,
which will tell her there are three
more slips to look for.
1t Is desirable in the beginning to
select very simple and familiar poetry,
so that the game may not be too diff
cult, and the children may have the
fun of fitting their slips together when
they find them, and when all are
found, each one reads her stanza
aloud. But this Is n game that will
entertain old as well as young chill
dren, and will be found a most excel
lent way to memorize poetry.-Home
Magazine.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
Chinese Traits.

While China Is as autocratic as Is
Russia. she is. at the same time. the
most democratic country In the world.
This may seem paradox, but, at the
worst. the Chinese Government Is a
patriarchal despotism. In the village
the head man rules as n father would
rule a family. Lawsuits are abhorred.
There are no lawyers. no jury trials.
Equity governs the judgments OF the
courts. l know OF a case in shanghai
In which there was finding for the
plaintiff. but because his conduct had
not been perfectly just the amount
assessed In his favor was ordered TO
be paid to charitable institution.
II magistrate fails of his duty he
Is set upon by a mob and dragged
from his chair. and the insignia of his
Office are removed, especially his Off
cial boots. The gods are treated in
like manner. They are put out In the
sunshine in times OF drought that they
may see for themselves the inconve'
nience OF the hot weather, and during
rains which last too long they are
lashed with whips as n punishment
Charles DENLY. in the Forum.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
Mummifed Bodies Found in Alaska.

Although many thousand mummies
of the aborigines OF the Western Con-
tinent. Il Is said. have been found be.
tween Alaska and Patagonia. those
people used no preservative art, as
did the Egyptians. 1t is said that they
had no knowledge of arsenic or OF
those spices which were employed by
the ancient Egyptians In expellins
moisture from the body. The mum
mics that have been taken from the
burial sands OF Peru are the result OF
the dry air and certain preserving
salts I'm those sands. Many desiccated
bodies have been found in Alaska and
In Mexico. In the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition is the desiccated body OF an In
dian woman discovered In 1917 In
Short Cave. eight miles from Nam
moth Cave. Kentucky. - Washington
Star.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
An Effrcfixe Mnsanito Guard,

A railroad man who works In one OF
the switch towers on the line TO At
lantic City. surrounded by a mosquito
infested swamp. has n plan of his own
for keeping them out Of the tower.
W nen the lamps are lighted and the in
sects swarm around the windows. the
switchman makes a ball out OF his
morning newspaper and soaks 1t In
coal oil just enough so that II viii not
drip. lie hangs this midway between
two windows and keeps IL swinging
all the time. He says that no matter
how thick the mosquitoes may be out
side they never care to pass it.-Phila
delphia Times.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
THE OLD SWIMMING POOL
Br RANDOLPH G. LKvrs.


Oakshaded and tranquil the old swim
ming pool,
A haven Of limpid delight after school,
Where knots IN the trees were as stub
born as those
We sometimes found meshing malignly
our clothes,
While gnats and mosquitoes played hide
and-go-seek-
With more Of the hide than is proper to
speak.
In manhood TO be Gin the swim" is the
game;
We yearn to be burned by the sunshine
Of fame
AS in boyhood, when, all a-dripping we'd
run,
And play a wild season at "tag" in the
sun,
While freckles were printed on cheeks
and the nose,
And other locations now hidden bv clothes.
New York World.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30
Name. Indian. Civ. to tn. Months.

The moon is the Indians calendaS,
He reckons time by its changes. and
long before the white man came 10
America the red man had a pretty
clear idea Of month of time. The
moon goes through four changes in
four weeks. From full moon around
to full moon again is. therefore. nearly
one month, or as the Indian called IL
moon. After all. the English word
month means moon. and is derived
from that word. So it seems the moon
Is responsible for the idea of month.
But the Indian named his months or
noons from the things that most ap-
pealed TO him-the weather, the plants.
the hunt, etc. Here are the names by
which he knew them:
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-08-30

No soloist he, but a part
In the mighty ensemble that scars
In the regions divine OF an art
Where man but aspires and adores
His JOY il the gladness Of those
Who feel they are helping the whole
Less fluent the harmony flows
IL an instrument flag, IL a soul
Unfathful should be 10 the beat
OF the baton that bids him be true;
And the music is ofttimes so sweet,
Small matter what makes il, or who.
And haply-who knows?-in the day -.
When the ultimate piece is rehearsed
Shall come his Great Moment 10 play,
And the fiddle called second, be first.
p Richard Burton, in Nashville American