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SOUND HOME TRAINING.
It Is Necessary to Make the People
OF the New Century Such as the
Nation Needs.

In the training of children the moth
er is usually the supreme power. The
father is frequently absent for long
hours, but the mother is nearly always
at the post of duty, and her life has its
sphere as well as its center there. She
only can deal with the children during
their most helpless years. The
trust they put in her, at first through
the instinct of helplessness, comes to
be the habit of the after years. The
wise mother will never let it go, but
maintain it, by ceaseless seIf-devotion,
and by delicate handling of mind and
heart, even when the children have
reached the strength of maturity.
Yet the father should neither for
get nor neglect his duty to his chill
dren. He has no right to assume that
the children are the mothers care,
and may be left entirely to her. His
wisdom, his strength, his authority
should constantly support her. He
should so impress his children when
with them, that even when absent his
authority and influence will be pres
ent with them, controlling, guiding
and inspiring. Especially to the
growing boys" the father should be
a great power. In the little kingdom
of the family the king and queen
should not only reign but govern. At
the present time many parents Meth
er can nor dare attempt to control
their children. This is utterly wrong.
1t means anarchy in the family, and
ultimately anarchy in the state. The
first element in training is government.
1t should be calm, kind, reasonable,
intelligent, affectionate, but it should
be firm. The parent cannot afford to
be beaten. If he gives way to-day, it
will be harder to conquer tomorrow;
if he gives way often, he himself will
be completely and finally conquered,
and the child will henceforth go his
own way and do his own will. If the
people of the new century are to be
such as the nation and the world need,
they must be more powerfully infiu-
enced in habit and feeling by church
and school, and above all must be
more readily, wisely and thoroughly
governed in the home.-N. y. Weekly.
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I'm engaged to be married. Natural
ly I'm elated, but for six weeks I've
kept the fact perfect secret. I've
been around everywhere without any
one guessing it.
'When l went abroad last summer
one of those periodical rumors that
1 was engaged to some one had just
cropped out, and [ denied it. l wasn't
engaged then, and [ said so. 1 told
you reporters that [ wasn't going to
get married over on the other side, and
that was true, too. But when 1 re-
turned in September I brought a Sc
cret which I struggled past customs
inspectors and reporters without their
getting a Whit of it, so 1 feel proud.
81 met Miss Palmer nine years ago
during trip abroad. It was at Vevay
in Switzerland. Miss Palmer is an in
innate friend of my cousin, Countess
de Sores, and it was through my cous-
in that was fortunate enough to meet
her. Since then 1 have seen her every
time I have been abroad. L always
stay two or three weeks with my
cousin, and Miss Palmer and her moth
er are neighbors of hers when they
are in Paris. Last summer I spent
turn we had becomeengaged. The we'd
ding will take place some time this
winter in Paris. The date has not
been set yet.
Miss Palmer has lived practically
all her life abroad, but she was born
here in the family house on Fifth av-
enue. Yes, she more than fills the
ideals that [ set for a wife in an in
terview I gave last summer" and the
senator laughed.
In the interview the senator referred
to he said he wanted for wife a wom-
an who could reach the men that he
couldn't reach, and he cited Mrs. John
A. Logan as an example. He also said
that she must be a woman who would
be content to sit at home in the even
ings, must be handsome and attractive
and be between the ages of 25 and rs,
adding that youth was not always the
most necessary requisite in a bride.
Miss Palmer will be Senator Depew's
second wife. His first wife was Miss
Elsie Hegeman, whom he married in
1871, and who died in 1898. He has one
son, Chauncey Depew, Jr., who is now
21 years old. For some years Mr.. De-
pew's niece, Miss Paulding, has made
her home with him.
Miss Palmer as Mrs. Depew will be
the hostess of the Corooran mansion
at Washington. This was built by Viii
| liam Corcoran, the banker and philan.
thropist, and is now owned by his
heirs, members of the Eustis family,
including Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr.
It has been the scene of many of the
most brilliant entertainments at the
capital, both during the day of it's
original owner and of the late Senator
and Mrs Calvin S. Brice, who, willis
they occupied it, enlarged and beautir
fed it greatly.
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Sensitive Canada.

An Englishman who wants to earn
the cordial dislike of Canada has
only to refer to the dominion as
"Our Lady of the Shows" or some
thing like that. People across the
border are very touchy on the SUBJ
iect. The London Times recently
offended by speaking of the climatic
conditions of Canada as such that
emigrants from England preferred
to go to the temperate zones," mean
ing the United States. And even Mr..
Gladstone had the impression that
Canada was land of perpetual ice
and snow. just now the Canadians
are down on Arthur Wing Pinero,
who, in his new play, Iris" refers
to Canada as that genteel Siberia, -
a phrase not calculated to earn moro
popularity than Kipling's poetic title.
Capt. Bernier and some other Cana
dams believe that the north pole is
properly a part of the dominion, SO
that any degree of cold can be at
tributed to Canada. But at the same
time it seems not to be appreciated,
if indeed it is known by many Eng
lishmen, that the populous part of
Canada lies below the fifticth para1-
lei, or below the southernmost point
of England. Montreal, Quebec and
Toronto are five or six degrees south
of London, and are considerably
south of Paris as well.-Spring6eld
| (dass.) Republican.
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He aimed. The teeth of the dog were
in the hem of the girls gown when he
fired. The dog fell, rolling over. An
incisor had entered the eye, penetrat-
ing the crazed brain.
When, moment later, the other
girls of the picnic party approached.
they found big, handsome farmer,
without upper teeth, holding a girls
head upon his knee and gently bath
ing it with bandanna handkerchief
wet with the water of Singing river.
Her eyes were open, and the express
sion of them was such that even he
could understand, although he was
far as yet from a full appreciation of
the happiness that had come to him.
He arose presently and assisted her
to her feet. ''May 1 get my horse and
take you home?'' he asked. eyes, -
she replied; 81 will wait here for you
For an instant he stood, seemingly
bewildered; then he passed rapidly to-
wards the road. At the carcass of the
dog he paused, looking back. The girl
smiled. He leaned over, patting the
poor, NANCY thing upon the head, and
went on again.
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bricked-in range with range boiler.
The china closet, between the dining
room and kitchen, is very conveniently
arranged, opening from both sides.
There is a base shelf two feet six inches
from the floor and on the dining-room
side there is provided below the base
shelf a locker and case of drawers.
There is also a case of drawers under
the seat of the projected window in
the dining-room. The bathroom is
furnished with a porcelain lined bath
tub, water closet and marble wash
bowl. There is also a wash bowl in the
lobby. The stairs to the second story
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HINTS FOR BEAUTY SEEKERS.

The softer the water the better is
it fitted for washing the human skin.
Boiling lessons hardness" Hot wa
ter cIeanses the skin better than
cold, but has no tonic effect. Cold
water is good tonic but a poor
cleanser.
Skins are muddy because the liver
is torpid, because the air breathed
is impure, because the bowels are not
freely active, because gaseous and
solid impurities in the atmosphere
are staining the skin. There are
many other prime factors, but in
startling majority of cases one OF
the foregoing will take the chief
place. Not infrequently there are
several allied causes.
Under ordinary conditions ordinary
methods serve; but when the skin
is very dirty, or we desire to attack
blackbeads, soap should be worked
into a paste with the hand, and be
well rubbed over the surface for
some seconds. Then, using a little
hot water, say half pint, the skin
surface must be rubbed into laths'
er, washed in another supply of hot,
end finally be Finsed IN gold water
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THEY WILL STEP ON THE HOSE
n Is q Temptation That Nine Women
Out of Ten Cannot
Resist.

The man in the stable door gave the
hose a Jerk, but before it cleared the
sidewalk the woman had landed on it
with both feet, says the New York
Times.
"Wouldn't that jar your" grunted
he. with another tug. Il never could
understand what makes women so
crazy about stepping on hose, anyway.
I've been attending to lawns and gar
dens and sidewalks for good many
wears, and never yet have L seen Il
woman go past while the hose was
stretched across the pavement that
she didn't plant both feet on it and
teeter around for awhile just for ex-
ercise.
4sWhat pleasure the habit affords
them I can't for the life of me see.
used to think that the practice indi-
Gated a remnant of childish playful
ness, and that they were so disporting
themselves just to see the water play
out in an extra squirt, but I've noticed
lately that they never even look at the
fountain end of the tube, so I've come
to the conclusion that they know all
that humping will injure the hose,
and so perform their little stunts out
of sheer deviltry. But whatever the
cause of the practice, it certainly is a
fact that nine-tenths of the women
passing along the street cannot resist
The tempta ton to step on the hose"
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PENNY WALK AS A SPORT.
New Way of killing Time Discovered
by n Travelling Man While
in Boston.

"You might think that a travelling
mans time was fully occupied, but
there are occasions when he feels the
need of relaxation, and, although
theaters are well in their way, they
occasionally pall.'
It was suggested that the travelling
man might go to bed occasionally in
order to catch the morning train, but
this particular man would not listen
to that, says the Chicago Tribune.
81 was in Boston last week." said
he, land a man put me onto some
thing new. The idea is like this. 1t
won't work in a town where you're
acquainted, but say you are in
strange place, it has it's exciting ele-
ments. You go out of your hotel
in the evening, either alone or with
a man who is equally ignorant of To-
calities, and you walk two blocks in
any direction. Then you halt and
toss a cent. Heads you turn to the
right; tails, you turn to the left.
The next two blocks you repeat the
tossing up, and follow the indicator.
So you keep on until you have twist
ed and turned all over the town. For
variety there is nothing to equal it;
it brings you into the strangest quar-
tiers, and you see sights that you
would otherwise miss. Of course,
there is a chance that you will dou-
BILE on your tracks, and come back
to where you started, but in that
case it is allowable to cheat, or take
another toss-up. Try it some time
when you are in strange town and
you'll have more fun than a cat
fnht ,,
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HAS FOUND HIS IDEAL.
The Venerable senator Chauncey NJ,
Depew VIII Marry May Palmer,
Maid of Thirty.

Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew, after
being kept busy for several years deny
ing rumors that he was about to take
a wife, admits at last that he is en-
gagged to be married and that this time
it's no joke. The woman of his choice
is Miss May Palmer. She is New
Yorker by birth, but is little known
there. Almost from her childhood she
has lived abroad and has visited this
country only a very few times. Miss
Palmer is the daughter of the late
Henry Palmer and granddaughter of
John I. Palmer, who founded the Mer-
chants bank. Her mother was one of
the three Herman sisters, of New Or
leans, who, generation ago, were IA
nous for their beauty the country
over.
eyes, said Senator Depew, to a New
York Sun reporter, cts true this time
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TEETH for
~ TEETH
BY D. H. TALMADGE.
Copyright. 1901. by Authors syndlcate.)

AMES MURCHISON was plain
u farmer, young and good to look
upon; but he lived to the age of 40
years without marrying, which was a
shame, as any one of several buxom
lasses in the Singing river district
admitted readily when the subject
was preached in confidence.
"There he is" said they, echoing
the sentence of their elders, Giving
alone on fine farm all his own, a
big bank account, figure like that
of the strong man at the circus, a
face handsome as the lovers at the
theater, going to waste! Dear, dear!
What can the man mean?"
The answers to this question were
two in number. One, he was bash
ful-so bashfu1 that the mere
thought of coming to close quarters
with a girl filed him with horror;
the other, he cherished in secret an
affection for the daughter of a grain
buyer in the town of Riverton, at
whose home he had visited on
number of occasions when corn was
coveted by the grain-buyer and the
growers of the commodity were
10th to sell. The girl had been most
gracious to James; indeed, she had
shown him marked attentions; and
so impressed was he by her charms,
which really were many, that he
dreamed of her by night and thought
of her by day until he was quite I'M
able to dream or think intelligently
upon any other subject.
He knew she was not for him, be-
hn nnSSaSSn6 tho
courage necessary to an avowal of
his passion, he could not have hoped
to compete with her other suitors,
who were men of polish and educa-
ton. He was aware that there were
many of these suitors. He was sur
prised that there were not more. He
could not understand why the whole
world of men, who were not so I'M
fortunate as to have contracted al
Iiances prior to seeing her, did not
PROSTATE themselves before her, as
he would gladly have done had he
dared
Every week he scanned the list of
marriage licenses published in the
Riverton News, his heart pounding
like a runaway trip-hammer until
the fact was established that she was
still untaken. Then he sighed from
the very bottom of his mighty lungs
and wondered how long his happiness
would last. Think of that! The
simple consciousness that she was
married to no one else was happiness
to him.
Now, there is a theory held by
many people of intelligence that
matches are made in heaven. 1t does
not look altogether reasonable in the
light of history, yet it must be adj
mitted that the holders of the theory
have much ground, in the way OF
isolated instances, to stand upon
Love making is not always necessary;
meeting of the souls upon the
street or at dinner table is some,
times sufficient to accomplish every
thing needful up to the drawing OF
the contract.
AS a matter of fact, the grain-buy
ers daughter had fallen in love with
James Murchison the first time she
saw him,-he was so big and hand
some and rich and dependable and al
together different from other men
But fortunately James did not know
this. Had he known it the chances
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are that he would have sold out and
run away as fast as he could to end
his days in misery and the great
north woods, were he owned a nice
bit of land. Such blessed thing is
ignorancei
It was his custom during the game
season to carry with him, when he
went to his work in the fields, shot
gun-an old-fashioned, muzzle-loading
piece which he had owned as boy;
and one afternoon he discovered that
his supply of shot was exhausted.
Therefore he went down the road to-
wards a neighbours, intending to bor-
row a handful. Nothing warned him
of his fate; nothing caused him to
change his course; on he strobe,
straight to the end of his agony-for
love, especially unspoken love, is that
and nothing else.
He had just stepped foot upon the
bridge which crosses Singing river
when 2rom up the stream he heard
the sound of women in distress. His
instinct told him that they were in
distress; otherwise he would not have
known, for the language of women
had been as a sealed book to him. He
stopped, listening. And while he stood
there a fleeing form in white came
into his vision, and choke came into
his throat, and a tremble came upon
his limbs. The form was that of the
grain-buyer's daughter, and behind
her, perhaps a hundred feet, was a
dog-an ugly, yellow beast with the
glare of madness in his eyes and the
froth of madness dripping from his
swapping jaws.
The girl saw James, and involuntari-
ly she extended her arms towards him.
The gesture banished the last vestige
of self-consciousness from the man.
He forgot everything except that she,
the idol of his dreams, was in dam
ger. But he did not move. Other men
would have dashed to meet her in an
abortive attempt at rescue. They
would have cried out; but he was
silent.
Quickly he dropped the stock of his
gun to the bridge, and rammed in a
double charge of powder. Time was
precious merciful heaven, how pre-
cious it was! He had no shot. There
were no pebbles in the dusty road.
And leap by leap the dog was gain
ing upon the girl whose strength was
nearly spent. What could he do?
a certain writer, accepted as an au-
thority by a major portion of the civ
ilized world, has stated that only when
crisis confronts him does a man
bring forth the best qualities which
are within him; a crisis is the only real
test of character. And in this crisis
the character of James Murchison was
proven good.
Let it be understood that not even
his nearest friend was aware that
James Murchison's upper teeth were
false. He had guarded the truth as
carefully as he had guarded his love.
He was much less handsome when his
teeth were not in place. But he did
not hesitate now to wrench the set
from his mouth and put his foot upon
it, breaking the worries from their set
ting. He poured them into the gun.
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==ART#==
IN ARCHITECTURE
Designed and Written Especially for This Paper


IT. He improved taste displayed in
house building during the past
few years has served to educate the
people to appreciate better work No
matter how small the structure may
be, the owner will strive to embeIlish
the design as much as his pocketbook
will allow, and will even sacrifice space
for the sake of appearance. We see
the result of this on every side in the
picturesque homes that dot the land
scape.
Experience has proven that good
substantial materials and work are
less expensive than fiashy, meaningless
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-30
PHENOMENAL MEMORIES.
A Noted Scientist who Could at Once
Recall the Names of
$4,000 Plants.

Many of the greatest men have had
phenomenal memories. Caesar knew
the names of thousands of soldiers
in his legions. A modern man of sci
ence often has prodigious memory
for special Technology. Prof. Asa
Gray assured me, says Prof. E. S. Hol-
den, in Harper's Magazine, that he
could at once recall the names of
something like $4,000 plants; Prof.
Theodore Gill can do the same for
fishes Our memory for mere words
is itself much more extensive than is
generally admitted. The average
weII-to-do child of two years of age
has a voca bulary of some 500 words,
and its father may have the COM
mand of 10000 more. The 10000
verses of the Rig-Veda have for 5000
years been accurately preserved in
the memories of the Brahmins. Not
one Brahmin alone, but thousands,
can to-day recite it word for word.
Thousands of Mohammedans, like
wise, know the Koran by heart, as all
learned Chinese know their classic
books. The chiefs of Polynesia can
and do repeat hundreds Of thousands
of words in their misunderstanding
days and even weeks for the recita-
ton.
Hundreds of pianists can play
all day, and many days, by mem
DRY, and L have myself seen Won Bue-
low conduct Beethoven's fifth SYM
phony without a score. Chess play
ers have a visualizing memory, while
arithmetical prodigies may have any
one of the three or combination of
all
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A TOUCHING TRIBUTE.
Sincere Compliment from n Humble
Admirer bestowed Upon
Public Singer.

''The most touching compliment 1
ever received remarked a we'll
known soprano the other day, relates
the Philadelphia Record, was paid
to me by poor old woman, who must
have amused those who heard her. 1
had sung two solos at the evening
service of a fashionable church. after
which l boarded a car. The old wom-
an, whose clothes indicated great pow
erty, got in and sat down beside me,
her face fairly shining with pleasure
az she recognized me. Lady, 1 want
to tell you how I likes your voice,
she exclaimed in rather broken Eng
lish. 1T goes right to my heart, and
makes me so happy, just as if I'd
heard the angels sing. L thanks you
Of course l thanked her, but the fun
ny part was when the conductor came
for our fares. The old lady counted
out ten pennies before 1 could pass
over my nickel. Two! two!' she said
to him, as she nodded to me. I wants
to, lady, for 1 likes your voice so
much; 1 likes your voice So, while
1 felt that perhaps the poor old soul
could i'll spare her extra pennies, I let
her make the sacrifice because of the
evident pleasure it gave her, and no
compliment 1 ever received has
touched me more deeply than her oft
repeated words: 4 likes your voice. -
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case and secretary. To the rear of the
sitting room is large first-story bed
room, very essential feature to many.
To the rear of the parlor, and also con-
nected with the sitting-room, is
large dining-room. The passage from
the dining-room to the kitchen is
through the pantry, and also through
the china closet. The arrangement of
this part of the house is very con-
venient. There is lobby opening be-
tween, and giving communication to.
the dining-room, bedroom and pantry.
The pantry is well provided with
shelves, bins, pastry table, etc. The
kitchen is provided with a sink and
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go up from an alcove off of the sitting
room, and land in a hall above, from
which are accessible four large bed
rooms, the stairs to the attic and a
large store room which may be fitted
up for a second-story bathroom if e.
sired.
The foundati walls are of stone
and brick, with cellar under the whole
house. A furnace is placed under the
dining-room. The building above the
foundation is of wood, with framing
timber of pine. The side walls are
sheathed with shiplap sheathing, then
covered with sheathing paper and
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weather-boarded with six-inch clear
pine-beveled siding, laid four and a
half inches to the weather. The roofs
are covered with the best quality
cypress shingles. The walls inside are
white hard finished on two coats of
lime mortar. The floors are of pine,
laid double throughout the first story.
All the interior trim of the first story
is of cypress wood, and of the second
story white pine; all finished natural
in hard oil. The building has been
erected thus for So, 900, and would cost
from that amount to $500 in most
places.
E A PAYNE.