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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-29
STORIES OF THE STREET.
Alma People are Talking About il on
Every Corner.

IL IL sometimes an easy matter to fool
the public, but you can't keep IL up very
long. Tney are sure 10 find YOU our
ard every time man is fooled another
~keptIc Is made. Skepticism II allowable
when reading in home newspaper
about some incident occurring i'm San
Francisco or Iowa, but the circumstances
are entirely Il tf-rent when 10 refers 10
some one right here at home; friends
and neighbors, people you know, whom
you can see, and with whom you can
talk il over This Is the kind of evidence
back of DOan's X dpey pills-home
statements by bone PEE ple-apd the as
tonlshlng cal work they have been
dong has caused more talk among our
cltlz ms than the doings of any other
modern wonder. Il al the following
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on for two or three years, accompanied
by backache Of the severest kind, and
sharp darting pains through the kidneys
At night II was painful to turn or move
and felt sore and lame in the morning
Ii L caught the least cold IL settled in
my back and | was much worsa When
/ learned OF Doan's Kidney Pills got u
box at Bivins x Rhodes drug store. and
was much pleased with their prompt
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for me 10 recommend Dams Kidney
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for them.
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-29

A repertoire attraction that is so re-
markedly different from the scores OF
others touring the country is naturally
more or less of novelty to the lovers
of this type of amusement 1t is true
that each of the various week stand at
fractions have some point Of excellence,
or star, more or less popular, yet it re-
mained for the Edna Farrell Stock Co.,
to offer list Of plays apparently be-
yond the reach of cheap prices. This
company opened three nights en-
gagement, with matinee Saturday, at
the Alma opera house last night. For
the past three years throughout the east
this company has been giving produc-
tions Of great plays in such a masterly
way that the organization has gained n
reputation that has never been attained
by a repertoire company. The company
is headed by Edna Farrell, an actress of
decided merit and possessed of great
personal magnetism. The exclusive
vaudeville features introduced between
the acts, which Will charactcrize each
rendition during the stay here, is an.
other important factor of the engage
meut For the opening performance
the management selected that great
New York success the four act comedy
drama, "Was She Guiltv:" with NJ IS
Farrell in the dual role of Beatrice
Willard and Mrs. William Dauforth.
Tonight, "a Woman's Revenge" and
Saturday night, "Wanted wife," VIII
be presented
The Port Huron Times say: edna
Farrell Stock Sompany opened a week 5
engagement at the City Opera House on
Monday evening by presenting "a Pari-
sian Princess" The company is headed
by Edna Farrell an actress of consider
able ability. The audience was large
one and the company gave the best of
The prices for this engagement will be
10, 20 and 30 cents. Seats now on sale at
Sharrar & Mu hollands.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-29
"Was She Guilty2"

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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-29

I'd leave my happy home and cross
the deep blue sea,
Rather than be without Charley and
my Rocky Mountain Tea.
BIvINs q RHODES.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-29

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large cabinets for 81 so per dozen: one.
half cabinet 81 90 per doz. one fourth
cabinet. rs cents per doz /; three elegant
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-29
Was She Guilty ?"

A thousand things by it are done far
better than most things do one. We re-
fer o. Rocky Mountain Tea made by
Madison Medicine 90. 35c.
BIvINs & RHODES.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-29

Remember the Elite II. Il. Photo Go
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accordingly, and come at once
and get dozen of their 81 90 cabinets.#
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-12

1.-THE American girl of today is more
brilliant than her English sister,
ck says an Australian woman, the
. latter less arrogant than her fair
= relation, and we must blame the ex-
etreme subserviency of the American
emale to the whims and caprices of his
q womenkind for the way in which, how
eever charmingly, they domineer over ali
Screation.
Very loyal are these husbands,
efathers and brothers who are content
= to toll, year in, year out, for the dol
Glars that their women scatter lavishly
cover half a continent, but it may be
e doubted if their generosity does not
GLOVER, instead Of raise, the moral tone
Sof the objects of their care and adj
miration. There is little courtesy of
{ manner and less graciousness among
these self -assertive females, who I'M
a hesitatingly take the best places in
eevery room, car or public place where
ethey may happen to be- never dream
cling of acknowledging by a word of
thanks the homage everywhere shown
ssby men.
In precisely the inverse ratio of the
eAmerican's indulgencies of his woman
q kind, her carelessness of him has in
reased, and 1t is his own fault if she
Regards him as mere excrescence, to
sbe Topped off and forgotten when she
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makes these tours of the world. fol
which apparently. and for no othe,
reason, she considers that she was
born.
How sad it is" said a witty Am
bassador one night at dinner to fail
rover, Ito see such great numbers OF
American widows in this country!
never meet their husbands, so they
must be widows,n Yet it is this very
Indifference to man, his predictions
his prejudices and his feelings, that
gives the.American girl her charm with
Englishmen. She fascinates them by
her determination to please wholesale
and perfect Indifference to the man in
dividually, and accustomed as he is to
ed. with Interior intentions, by bad
wards himself nightly refreshing and
enjoys her wit amazingly.
But strangely enough he never an
neXes that airy wit unless it has sub
stantial foundation of dollars on which
.lantic cousins proudly point to the
great matches they have made in this
country they omit to mention the
ladies' would never have been invited
to take UP their residence among US.
Bright and light as humming birds,
exquiSitely dressed, curled, manicured,
groomed to the utmost point of perfec-
ton, they alight with perfectly Olsen
gagged minds in our midst and instant
~ claim our attention, for they are
afraid of nothing under heaven, and
let fall their shrewd perspicacious COM
ments on men and things with superb
aplomb and freshness, being as COM
p!etely free from preiudices as their
hearts are from the smallest faint of
romance. Where do they go, these bril-
liant birds of passage, when they shake
from their feet the lime of Paris? Do
they return to their generous male
bankers and settle down into those good
wives and mothers we know exist in
America as everywhere else? Or do the
incest girls never come here at all and
so we get quite an erroneous idea of
the American woman as she really is at
home?
Our English maidens do not cross the
herring pond on matrimonial affairs
intent; apparently they have not the
yearning for American husbands that
our fair cousins display for our sons
and brothers; their graces and charms
are for home use, and the main differ
ence between the English and Ameri-
can girl is that while the former has
a great desire to make happy the man
she loves, the latter thinks man was
created to make her happy, his claims
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-12

his friend refusing to continue the
journey into the deadly Dinka swamps
south of Fashoda.
Here is an extract from a character
istic letter that Cecil Rhodes wrote to
Mr.. Grogan from the Government
House at Buluwayo, on September Z,
1900:
I must say l envy you, for you
have done that which for centuries
has been the ambition of every explor-
er; namely, to walk through Africa
from south to north. The amusement
of the whole thing is that a youth
from Cambridge during his vacation
should have succeeded in doing that
which the ponderouS explorers of the
world have failed to accomplish. There
is distinct humor in the whole thing.
1t makes me the more certain that we
shall complete the telegraph and rail-
way, for surely l am not going to be
beaten by the legs of a Cambridge
undergraduate. Your success the more
confirms ones belief. The schemes de-
scribed by Sir William Harcourt as
wild cat you have proved are capa-
BILE of being completed even n that
excellent gentleman'S lifetime.
AS to personal appearance, the
young traveller is in no way disappoint-
ing. He is the tall, muscular, pink
and-white young man that you would
choose from a hundred to do what he
mas zone. gu Will ma 1t nara 10
believe him when he tells you how he
aas suffered from African fever; and
GU wonder still more to hear how
ven now, when the fever eXcites him,
r-5 mind reyerts to the awful journey
t; ough the Dinka swamp, where days
W e maddening and nights hideous.
oft-n, at the time. he thought that he
was going mad. Day followed Gay in
the traekless jungle when the life Of
every man of them depended on the
truthfulness of the compass. Even the
black men could not stand the strain:
two of the porters went insane and
had to be driven along handcuffed at
the point of the spear. The porterage
was reduced to the barest necessities;
the whole party was only fourteen, and
there were troubles enough to have
justified even the kindest of leaders in
leaving crazy men behind. The fierce
san was directly overhead and gave no
az 70 direction. Perhaps the compass
W false and they were travelling in
Yer ending circle. The atmosphere,
the lush, the vegetation, even the null
ttuCes of insects, We're so poisonous
that perhaps they were all insane and
had lost their original purpose. And
the absolute lack of companionship for
the leader was no light addition to his
distracted mind. He says that the
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on her unselfishness, devotion and wo.
manly duty being absolutely NIL.
And inferior intellectually as the En-.
glish girl may at first sight appear. vet
she has been able to grasp the great
fact (Which the American has notl
that it is worse than idle to aspire to
position that she is incapable of IN
holding-that she is mans complement
not his peer, and she knows that when
she and man are set each to do some
thing, the mans slow-going, con.
structive mind will do it well, willie
she with her alert, receptive faculties
will either be unable to do ii at all or
do it extremely Ill. For one conspicu-
ously bright man you will probably
meet a hundred bright, intelligent wo-
men, but set the niIiety-nine dull men
real work to do and they will beat out
of the field the brilliant women, who
have put all their wares in their shop
windows and left nothing in their eel
lars to produce more when those at
tractiveswares are sold out
Could America ever produce two such
perfect types of what English wives
and mothers should be as Lady Sails
bury and Mrs. Gladstone. women whose
lives were absorbed in those of the
great men to whom they We're life part
ners, and who never tried to usurp he
privileges and penalties of the sterner
sex?
To make a happy household cline.
That's the true pathos and sublime
OF life,
Human.
Many an English girl thinks that to
be a mother is to be the most beauti-
full and at the same time the happiest
thing on Gods earth, that unselfishness,
and practicing as far as possible the
universal love, brings joy that mere
dressing up and being striking figure
in society never can. a~d v-'0T she is
witty, which is fairly often, she is not.
let us whisper it with bated breath,
witty through her nose. Granted
that she is not so highly educated an
her transatlantic sister. she also has
not the ineffable self-assurance that
the full pocket Tin itself vulgarizing)
inevitably brings, and if she is more
likely to be badly used by a man be
cause she is more sensitive to his
able, more humble, and, above all
things. more genuinely womanly. The
very small minority of ugly and discon-
tented women whom no man ever wish
ed to annex or subdue in no way affects
that gracious garden Of English girl
hood which must ever stand first in
the massed armies of the women OF the
world. ash
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-12

An amusing discovery was made in
regard to Mount Mfumbiro, which has
been marked on most maps, with the
height given, which played an impor-
tant part in the BrItisn-German treaty
negotiations. Grogan declares that 1t
existed only in the imaginations of the
learned gentlemen who met in confer
ences and solemnly changed maps, re-
gardiess of the real territory in dispute.
The valley of the Rutchuru and the
shores of Albert Edward NyanZa were
carefully traverSed. 1t was when Lake
Rusamba was reached that Mr.. Sharp
decided to return home After this,
Grogan proceeded alone to Albert
Lake. AT Bohr the little expedition
reached the edge of the impenetrable
Dinka swamp. Throwing away every
thing but absolute necessaries, the
young explorer, accompanied by only
thirteen men, and with many misgiv-
lngs, started on his four hundred mile
tramp through an unknown region.
here, also, new maps were made and
new names given, hitherto unmarked
channel of the river being called the
Gertrude Nile. After this there was
sun the hopeless stretch of the Nuer-
land to be covered, before the Sobat
branch of the Nile was reached and
the solitary journey ended.
Mr.. Grogan brought a mass OF eth
investigated and described the various
tribes with which he came in contact.
And motley collection of giants, pyg-
mics and cannibals they are. He had
very little trouble even with the worst
of them. There were only two mortal
combats, and only once during the
whole journey was it necessary to take
food without paying for it, Usually
the proffers of cloth, beads, and even
jubilee medals, had the desired effect
OF bringing about sort of dumb mar
ket day. This experience is the reverse
OF former African methods, culminat-
ing in Stanley's idea that the only way
successfully to cross the continent was
with an army which could lay waste
everything before It, Where Stanley
says of people, Marching to Wadelai
would only be useless waste of am
munltion.' Grogan found them perfect
ly tractable, and did not use one Of
the twenty rounds of ammunition that
he had brought to meet them.
The return to England carried the
young explorer through the more peril
Gus jungles Of social attention, even to
reading paper before a full meeting
of the Royal Geographical Society,
where the president in thanking him,
ingenuously hoped that he would soon
return with another paper of still
greater interest and value.''
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-12

- EW young men have ever been
u !. fortunate enough to make sue
cessful explorations of unknown
countries, and even old and expe-
renced South African explorers
have failed signally in their attempts
to accomplish what Captain Ewart
Scott Grogan, now in Honolulu, has
done. Never before in the history of
explorations has an undertaking of
such magnitude been entered into with
less preparation. The idea of travers
ing the continent of Africa from South
to North was deemed impossible, but
with the characteristic stubbornness of
his ancestors, Captain Grogan at the
end of three years of perilous adven
ture founu himself at his journeys
end. To anyone who knows the cap
tain it is only what might have been
expected of him; of excellent physique
and perfect health his face is the true
face of the Briton, and being well sup
piled with worldly goods better man
could not have been found in all Eng
land. He is now with his bride at the
Hawaiian Hotel.
The following extract from the
Wofius Work magazine gives the
reader good idea of the extent of the
work that Captain Grogan laid out to
himself:
ION February Is, 1898, Ewart Scott
. Grogan and Arthur Henry Sharp land
il ed at Beira. the port of Rhodesia, East
Africa, ostensibly on one of those big
game hunting expeditions which carry
Englishmen TO the furthest corners of
the earth. Mr. Grogan had been in
the Matablele war two years before,
and was familiar with the veldt from
Cape Town to the Zambesi Both were
great hunters, and if they had
any ideas of exploration before
them, they wisely kept silent about
them, for failure is objectionable In
the heart of one of them was a secret
purpose breathed only to a single man
at home, and not even then preached
to his comrade, a secret SO gigantic
that he was almost afraid of it him
self. Before him stretched hundreds of
miles never traversed by man, and be-
yond that, even where white men had
formerly been known, the long stretch
es of the Nile were again in savage
hands Yet eighteen months after
starting north Mr.. Grogan set foot on
the platform Of the railway station at
Cairo, where the people of all nations
meet Half the way he had come alone,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-12

white and gold, and black cloth bands .
edged and embroidered with gold. The
draped frolt fastens with a fancy but +
ton. .
Model No. 4 shows a quaint and artis-
tic tea gown of Gobelin-blue velveteen, 8
the sleeves and underdress made of 9
cream cashmere tucked and embroider-
ed. The delicate girdle fastens the
frock high up under the arms, giving
the Empire effect, and the deep cape
collar is slashed. :
A charming Vatican house gown is :
shown in model No. 5, to be made of I
two kinds of material. 1t is extremely
pretty when the half-fttfng body of
the gown is made of bright-howered
stuff, either silk or wool, and the train,
fchu, front and undersleeves of plain
crepe de chine. AS will be observed
the train falls in the familiar Vatican
plat from the shoulders and is finished
with four small ruchings. The front is
plain and full and over it fall the frilled
ends of the fichu.
Model No. displays a simple but
stately tea gown of pale maize-colored
cloth, loosely tied together by great
bows of wide, soft ribbon. The flow
ing sleeves display guipure under
sleeves, and the front is of guipure over
yellow silk.
Model No. pictures a beautiful
= dressing gown of pale blue cashmere.
the sleeves, collars and front being
edged with an embroidered band of
mingled black, blue, white and touch
of gold The collar is deep, square and
open at the throat, the sleeves long and
: flowing and tucked at the shoulder, and
the body of the gown is tucked in clus-
tiers at the top, under which runs
soft, black panne velvet ribbon about
. two inches wide.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-12

myriads of mosquitoes furnished some
kind of stupetying injection which
caused him TO rise utterly dazed in
the morning after bad night of them.
Two of his negroes were bitten to
death, literally sucked ury, by them.
TO hear hlm tell of these terrible ex-
periences (and he tells of them very
vlvid.y) as if the whole thing were a
huge Joke. is an experience not soon
to BE- forgotten.
The expedition was planned first of
all in the search OF sport. It's leader
says that as child he had four am
bitions-tc slay a. lion, riinoceros,
anG an elephant. and to see Tanganyi-
ka. Had 1t not been for big game
hunting, no earthly cons Iteration
would nave induced him 10 put mis- foot
one mile south of the Pyramids. Yet
the scientific results of his journey are
surprising and varied. The geograph-
zeal results include an exploration of
the swamps Of the Pungwe river, made
as a sort of spur on the main journey
north. The explorers found the face of
this whole stretch of land much chang
ed since it was last described nine
years ago. There seems to be general
drying up of the swampy plains. Where
natives, according to former accounts,
went from vilIage to village in canoes
there is now dry land with only a few
deep water holes. Their boats rot on
dry plains, and a few surviving croco-
dies lead a precarious existence. Mr.
Grogan thinks that as remote as this
is from the center of volcanic disturb
ance, there is constant and rapid
process Of upheaval. The quantity of
game in this country, called the Cor
onoza country, was found to be in
credibly large.
The real trip forward began on Oc-
tober rs. 1898, when the expedition left
the Zambesi river for the north. The
next exploration of geographical value
covered the mountain mass of Clipper
oni, previously visited by only one par
ty of big game hunters. The stay of
the explorers on the shores of Lake
Tanganyika was considerably disturb
ed b. fever and sunstroke, but at last
they proceeded up the valley of the
Rusisi river, which flows out of Lake
Kivu. Thence, for hundreds of miles,
they made many additions to the map.
They noted the progress, both material
and territorial, of the Germans at the
expense of the Belgians, rival colonists
in this region. A very complete map
was made of the eastern shore of Lake
Kivu. In fact, Grogan's map of the
whole country between Lake Tangan-
yika and Lake Albert Edward is a
great advance over all previous rec
ords.
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THOUGH the wrapper habit" is
4 most Objectionable one and much
III TO be condemned, yet the daintily
dressed woman as studiously
avoids the opposite extreme of unvary-
ing stiff and starched primness of at
tire. In fact she counts, and wisely,
upon her tea gowns, dressing jackets
and negligee as being one of the most
fascinating and altogether satisfactory
portions of her wardrobe. Simple and
inexpensive materials produce excellent
effects in these pretty garments, and
frequently half worn or slightly worn
dresses which are no longer desirable
in their more formal garb nTay be
very happily transformed into hand
some as we'll as comfortable negligees.
Model No. 1 displays one of these
made-over triumphs, where black silk
dress may be utilized, provided you
have enough new to make the long but
narrow front breadth. The back is cas-
lily heightened by the tucked band
about the bottom, and the short bolero
effect of the upper part of the dress
is also of tucked silk.
A simple and graceful morning gown
Is shown in model No. 2. OF pale pink
cashmere, it has a tucked yoke crossed
by bands of Persian trimming in deli
cate colors. The same trimming
makes a girdle with long ends, ano
also wristbands, which terminate the
long, full sleeves tucked around the
bottom.
Model No. 8 gives sensible, ser
viceable and handsome dressing sacque
which may, of course; be made of flan
mel, cashmere, silk or velvet in an!
color desired, but it is seen at it's bes
when fashioned of broadcloth in tina
exquisite shade of pinkish bright red
This should be combined with a white
cloth yoke embroidered with black
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-12

A lady who was unfamiliar with the
streets of New York was much confused
by the jargon of a car conductor When
she thought she must have arrived near
her destination the conductor poked his
head into the car and said: "Uumty
bazazas!" What street did you say?"
demanded the passenger "Ufty-
umpth" said the conductor Much an
noyed, the lady from the suburbs went
out on the platform and rebuked the
conductor for his careless use of the
vocal organs He ony glared at her
and said: what do you expect for
three dollars week? A tenor solo?"