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Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14
FIGS AND rnIsrLEs.

You cannot cheat God and the devil
too.
The light of God cures the lust of
gold.
The grace of God is the glory of His
child
There are no pure lives without pure
hearts.
The tree of knowledge is not the
tree of life.
Receding waves do not indicate an
ebbing tide.
tongue alone.
Faith has a foot to walk as well as
an eye to see.
We are more likely to lose our gains
than our gifts.
The richest promises are for the
poorest people.
Don't trim your lamp so zealously as
to extinguish it.
Character is the best commercial as
set in the world.
To do is not to be- We ought to be
more than we do.
God fights our foes without If we
fight those within.
endanger my own liberty when l
force it on another.
The sun that bleaches sanctity
whittier tans sin darker.
Sounding brass is not the sign of
one sound in the faith.
Troubled hearts are the only ones
that can claim Gods peace.
The more personal you make your
preaching the palmer it will be.
The world needs pure-thought cru
sade more than one for pure food.
1t is vain to draw man out of the
saloon if you drop him on the street.
A great many are living in hopes
there will be no collections in heaven.
Our thoughts in time are weaving
the garments we must wear in etern-
ity.
It's of no use for your lips to be
talking of grace unless your life tastes
of it.
Truth does not need any proof or
evidence. for the real truth is self-evi-
dent.
The man who gives to advertise his
character has no charity worth adver-
tising.
The Christian is like candle, he
cannot be kindled without being con-
sumed.
If the body is Gods temple the fires
Of passion may burn on His altar to
His glory.
The eloquence of the preacher can
-
the parent.
The wisest sympathy will not sing
our dirge with us, but it strikes note
of Gods anthem in harmony with ours.
Rams Horn.
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14
PoNDERIkos.

Thinking over these things makes
one philosophical:
Little pitchers may have long beers.
And these few thoughts to wind up:
Straws show which way the drink
goes.
A bartender can be tough, II neces.
snry.
Does giddy girl make fellows
head swim?
Money is the root of all evil. Let's
root for money.
A guardian with troublesome
ward regards him as minor evil.
Put your trust in Providence. r. /.
If New Jersey refuses charter
How long must sailor be pre-.
served before he becomes an old salt?
Half a loaf is better IT an all work.
Is a trip on the ocean wave desir.
able when the ocean waves too much?
The dude has his dudeen-the Irish.
man his dhudeen. It's a "pipe" for
both
It's a wise child that knows its own
father when TIE mosquitoes are
through with him.
II broker tried to corner lemons
and failed. would he be apt to sour
on the sp psculation?
II 1t takes nine tailors to make
man. how many are needed to make
Wonder dude into one?
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14
SOBER THOUGHTS.

wheat may be cornered, but L.. /.
can't be wheatened.
Money sometimes makes the mare
go in the also-ran class.
There is probably nothing more
pointed than the finger of scorn.
Fruit is considered wholesome. but
banana peel will upset almost any
mans stomach.
1t is easier for girl to believe she
is pretty than it is for her to make
other girls believe it.
A woman either adjusts hersel; u
her surroundings, adjusts her sur
roundirgs to suit herself or gets a
divorce.
The most painful climbing of for.
tunes ladder is done by people who
have been at the top and are com
PEELED to climb down again.
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14
BITS OF PHILOSOPHY.

ASK and ye shall receiye"-if you
have the price. N
Gallantry is not flattery, but a little
flattery does not spoil it.
A town is never so dead that cir
Gus can not put life into it.
People often have more money than
they need. but very few of them more
than they want.
When he is lover he offers to 60
to the end of the earth to serve her;
when he is husband he hesitates
about going to the corner grocery at
her request
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14
CLASSIFIED SUMMER RESORTS.

Bakers to Cakes. Pa.
Jewellers to Gem, Ind.
Printers to Agate, Cal.
Poets to Parnassus, Pa.
Perfumers to Aroma, III.
Mendicants to Begg. La.
Bankers to Deposit. N. Y.
Actors tf Starr City. Ark.
Plumbers to Faucet, Mo.
WidUwers to Widows, Ala.
Lovers to Spoonville. Mich.
Debtors to Cash City. Kan.
Sports to Race Track. Mont.
Hunters to Deer Trail, Colo.
Politicians to BuncomLe, Va.
Bald folks to Bald Knob. Ark.
Dry goods men to Calico. Cal.
Physicians to Doctortown. Ga.
Puzzle fends to Riddleville. Ga.
Druggists to Balsnm Lake. VIA.
School teachers to I.arned. Kan.
EntomoloEists to Bug Hill. N. G.
Baseball players to Background. Ga.
Thrce-card monte n en- to Trickum
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14

Piso's Cure for Consumption IL IN infalltble
medicine for coughs and colds--N. w. SAMUEL.
Ocean Grove. N. J.. Feb II. 1900
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14

To Cure a Cold in Ono day.
Take Laxative Bromo QuinIne Tablets. All
druggists refund money il it fails to cure 25c.
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14

A young couple who were married at
Golden. Colorado this summer have noti-
fled their friends that they will celebrate
their Golden wedding every year. which
is taken to be a hint at the kind of pres
ents they will expect.
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14

A railroad advertisement says: There
Is nothing on earth too good for the
Western Stock Raiser. and he gets it,
too" What? You don't say! Gets moth
ing when beef is as high as 1t was when
the COW jumped over the moon!
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14

Nora-Isn't Bridget Mahoole an ideal
laundriss? Kate-Isn't she, though?
Phoy. her mouth will hold twinty clothes
pins ut Taste.
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14
WHEN YOUR GROCER sAys

he does not have Defiance Starch. YOU
may be sure he IL afraid to keep It until
his stock of II OF. packages are sold. De-
other Cold Water Starch, but contains i6
OF. to the package and .ells for same
money as u o. brands
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14
WHY IT Is THE BEST

IL because made by an entirely different
process Defiance Starch Is unlike any
other, better and ono-thir. more for 10
cents.
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup
For children teethng, softens the gums, reduces ID
asumation, allays pain. cures wind collie &c oots
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14

The strange sea monster. .channomura-
ena vitata, recently received at the Bat
Bermuda is dead; but 1t has left a great
name.
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14

IA man." observed Uncle Eph'm, 'is
des' like a postage stamp. He amt no
count when he gifts badly stuck on his
self"
Gilpin observer., 1902-08-14

"Adieu. Minister wu." says Uncle
brightest Chinee we ever knew"
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est, 4 years old; Katherine. and Alberta,
the baby--go to New York to see the Christ
mas toys and buy gifts for one another
and the faithful woman left alone In the
lighthouse.
This Is one OF the two or three times a
year that these three water babies get on
land. and the sights that they see make
their little eyes bulge with wonder and
furnish food for talk for days to come with
their grandmother, who. until her son
married about five years ago, had her
two children for her only companions for
nearly ten years.
Because they get to see people outside
the lighthouse SO seldom, the little girls
are extremely shy when a stranger once
in great while chambers up the iron ladder
reaching down to the water along their
homes side. No amount of coaxing can
induce the two younger to come from their
hiding place behind their grandmother
skirts, and only after prolonged persuasion
will Emma forget her bashfulness enough
to smile timidly and lisp sweetly.
Mary, the daughter, Is away q good part
school on Staten Island. But when vaca-
ton comes she loses no time in getting
back to the lighthouse where her little
nieces spend hours on sunny days In the
rope swing in which she passed q large
part Of her childhood, which In sts-
pended from stout iron hooks driven into
the stone floor OF the second balcony.
She has never known any other home than
the lighthouse. and her affection for II Is
deep. She Is. indeed. a child Of the sea,
and. like her supplemented, open hearted
and quantity old-fashioned mother, she
ran interpret it's every sign and mood
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have redness Of eyes. he had bulgin' Of EN-.
Nobody hadn't been able to git Simon TO
let up on his tamperin with the juice, and
everybody see that il wouldn't be more
and II was too bad, for Simon had the
makin's of quite feller-citizen in him.
Everybody had got through taikin'
about the picker'l by the time Simon come
In. and he was nervous and shiverin and
tremendous shaky. He begun to cuss and
kitchen, and he tottered over lords the
corner where them picker'l was ranked up
like sticks O. stovewood. like he was Roin'
to put stick or two on the fire.
jest as he got to EN- the stack O. pickerl
began to wobble. and up jumped one o.
pile, followed by the one that he'd had
the rough-and tumble with, and three or
four more, and In less than a second there
was the liveliest scrimmage goin' on amongsl
EN- that any one ever see, The picker't
and ginger as they was fore they froze up.
We'll. when Simon see that. his eyes
shot out furder than ever. He gave
yell, his hair riz up, and he give one
Jump and went through the win6er. and
struck away acrosst lots. sheddin' panther
yells at every jump; He never stopped till
he got to the Squire's. two mild up the turn
pike. He busted into the Squire's yellin':
Draw the papers. Squire! Draw EN-
strongl When ! see stove wood, ~ cate,
turnin' into baby aliigators. worse than
Aaron's stan turned into wigglin' sarpents:'
he yelled, it's time for me to swear on q in
the cuss O. rum and I'm goin' to do 1t, by
cats!
And he did. and he hain't never looked
on the wine when II was red nor the tanRle-
foot when It was yaller from that day to
this: But 'spose II had been ag'in the Law
to fish fer .pickerel through the ice with
tip-ups? Where would Simon he to-dayY
he wouldn't be nowheres and the c,ss o.
rum d be lauRhin' ha hal
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beam a twig In its bill. and. standing up
on one foot. you lift the other one behind
you and, then you lift the twig or whatever
II Ia in both hands above your head.
II your body were cut Of at the waist
line you would appear very graceful. for
the motion would be a slightly swaying
one and your arms would be separated
and the hands waving in that peculiar
manner which comes Of lightness Of mo-
ton. You can practise this and. a. you
do so. you will notice how much more
graceful in movement you become with
each hour Of practice.
There Is another living motion which
is being practised by those who seek to
acquire this peculiar willowy action. For
this you take a wreath. or other light OBJ
j.ct, in both hands. and, leaning "a far
forward as you can. you place the hands
together and then separate them.
The motion resembles swimming move
ment with the hands over the head and the
arms waving. The body must be bent
far forward and the head thrown back.
1t will be impossible to stand firmly upon
both feet. as one foot is required to preserve
the BODY balance
A preliminary motion TO the flying one
consists in lifting the hands high above
the head and opening and closing the fingers
Incline the head to one side and then 10
the other.
Let every motion he graceful nothing
stiff or strained. Repeat the exercise
fifteen times. lifting and lowering the arms,
and turning the head to one side and to the
other.
A splendid motion for grace is a flying
one performed upon footstool. Throw
blanket over the footstool. Mount and
stand upon one foot. Throw the other foot
back of you at almost right angles with
the body.
Let one arm extend in front Of you on
level with the chin, let the other arm
extend back Of you IN straight line with
tho chin. With the arms extended in this
manner. one in front Of you aud one back
of you. with the head thrown forward
and one foot thrown backward, the flying
action is perfect.
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or Is surrounded by 20 many canopies
and hangings. by so much pomp and show.
by 30 many waving flags and tapestries,
that one might almost as we'll be Of one
color as another.
But grace is q different thing, and u
required. To mount an elephant with
dignity takes this quality, and not only
this, but knack. II takes confidence,
born OF practice; and it takes ju dgment
and tact. And for this ordeal. and dozen
theirs. the leading lady OF India is pre-
pairing herself
Now the woman at home may not have
quite these things to do. but she has similar
ones. As hostess she must carry in the
tea tray and on emergency be the bearer
Of a turkey platter.
She will have to pour and pass cup Of tea.
More than this she shows her grace. or
her lack Of 1t, in a thousand little WAYS
daily.
Have you ever tried to move about your
own drawing room, speaking to this guest
and to that one, speeding the parting and
greeting the coming, without feeling that
You might have studied grace to your
advantage? Well. the woman of the
moment Is remedying all defects OF her
makeup and training by cultivating every
grace Of body.
Her latest way Of doing it is by learning
to fly.
To fly correctly you take some long
light object in your hand. even as bird
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JUST PRACTISE FLYING A BIT.
1T rs ONE WAY IN WHICH WOMEN
GAIN BODILY GRACE.
Lady Curxon Trying II In Anticipation OF
the Durbar In India-lt Limbers the
Muscles and Improves the Form
Deep Breathing Part OF IT,.

Lady Curzon is learning to fly, accord
ing to reports from India: or, to be more
accurate. she is practising the motions
Of flying.
The trying ceremonies OF durbar week
make it necessary for her to undergo q
course Of preliminary training. just think
how you would feel If you had to walk
a long distance In the face of an assem-
bled multitude; to ride an elephant: to
eat and drink, rise and sit down, and, finally.
after being crowned. to stand and be shaken
by the hand by thousands, or kissed upon
the hand by the same number. And
added to this, suppose you had to dance
minuet in the evening
On top of all this, Lady Curzon. wife
Of the Viceroy of India, is compelled to
attend a round of festivities which might
he expected to leave her exhausted at the
end Of durbar week. Yet she cannot
afford to be exhausted for the Indian
Princes will continue paying their tribute.
and she must be by the side OF the Viceroy,
smiling through it all.
To be graceful during this time is even
more important than to be pretty. The
face is hidden during much of the period.
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the flying movements graceful when she
moves. She has a certain willowy, sway
ing grace which is very much to her ad-
vantage when one comes TO consider the
personal attributes.
The woman who will try these motions,
taking each by itself and exercising ten
minutes at a time. will find that she can
walk better. seat herself better, enter q
room nore gracefully and converse with
The movement Of the shoulders In easier
and the hips are not SO apt to look square
Us upon the woman who has not learned
the gentle art OF swaying them.
The opposition, OF motion. il is called.
Is lifted the other is lowered: or, II this he
impossible. The body is balanced by means
Of the feet, which are placed forward or
backward as happens TO he the best at the
time. The Delsarteans consider this one
OF the most telling of all personal acquire
ments.
To get ready to fy. stand straight upon
both feet. Draw in the abdomen. throw
out the chest. lower the shoulders. Then
throw one arm forward, cast one foot behind
You.
Rise To the toe Of the other foot and sway
the arms. II may mean fall or two. but
tine results will make you forget your bruises.
In the gymnasium they practise this,
mounted upon pedestal 40 small that
only one foot can be balanced upon It.
Inc Otner Is uYted.
As the gymnast changes feet there il a
quick hop from one toe to the other. The
beginner had better observe a certain
amount Of discretion In doing this.
The pedestal idea Is good one for her.
but she should remember that discretion
il the better part Of valor for any warrior,
male or female: and If she mounts the
pedestal 1t had better be a very low one.
so that a chance hop shall not bring her
to the ground with a thud. One six inches
or foot high will be big enough for all
ordinary purposes Of body balance.
In exercising be sure to do II to music.
II YOU cannot get music and cannot even
whistle. then try counting. Do each move
ment ten times. stopping to rest in be-
tween. In this way you do not practise long
enough to injure your muscles, nor do you
slight your task.
Deep breathing il about the hardest
thing an amateur can practise. 1t be.
comes very tiresome. and the muscles feel
strained.
1t is unintereeting, too, and one feels
as though the foundation Of ones being
were trembling in the attempt to get
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INCIDENTS or SPARROW LIFE.
Three Scenes After . enowstorm That
interested an Observer.

"'e'e"'e" =" Ooser'er.
Here are three Incidents OF sparrow
life. lately observed" said Mr.. Goslioeton.
stha, interested ~.
90. .n,,.ss -"
vi course. aiter snowstorm' the spar
rows have the time OF their lives getting
something to eat; and many OF them don't
get IL. thew starye and freeze IN deatb
.waIL;no .Io, -. -
=, ""ns a'o"s e.'ee. near "nere
I'VE, on the sunday after this last snow
storm, I saw a sparrow hop across the
sidewalk from the street and I'm on IN the
ster Iead;no q, N. 49, ~ r..,.,,..u
- W., wv ~. CIV
ana I9nch room there: lhere wasn't a
one:eu .n'nk IN si8nt LOT tne sparrow 10
cav ih tne street or on the sidewalk, or
any"nere, everything around was covered
WIN snow ana its hopping across the walk
eno up on mat step and 70 the lunch room
ooor looked as thouRh u nan read the sign
ana hao hopped up there hoping 10 get some
hing TO eat.
seemed not impossible that 1t had
oeen there before. and been fed there, and
mad come up there ihtelliRently; but this
was Sunday and, at that hour anyway.
the restaurant was closed, and there was
nothing doing there for the sparrow
incident NO. 2. A dozen sparrows had
found Al the edge OF sidewalk a crust Of
bread thrown out on the snow and were
hopping about this crust and picking at il
hurrtedly and nervously, to get away with
u before anything could happen to take IL
from them, when out from the house line
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And this is what 1t does for you: II
makes you graceful, for it could not fail
TO accomplish this But. in addition, It.
limbers the muscles and makes them proof
so the health and beauty culturists declare
against rheumatism, neuralgia and stiff
nees.
1t opens the lungs and makes deep breath
ing pleasure and a possibility. II widens
the chest and gives the bust a chance.
1t reduces the size Of the hips and it makes
the waist very round.
The girl in a gymnasium suit who prac-
tises these exercises every day OF her life,
will have something to show for her trouble
along the lines Of personal improvement,
for she will gather figure and grace at the
same time.
The poetry of motion is learned in the
flying movement. 40 say the ones who
make a study OF this species OF grace. They
say that, lust as bird o. always graceful
when II flies. so Is woman who has learned
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HARD 70 KILL MOSOUITOES,
In Ponds That Dry Up the Esgs Live for
Many Months.

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. is.-Dr. T. W. Du.
pree, who has been ma king an investisa.
ton Of mosquitoes in Louisiana. has re-
ported to the Louisiana Society of Natural
lists that he has found that the eggs OF
mosquitoes often hatch months after they
are laid. especially II they are deposited
n ponds which subsequently dry up.
The conclusion reached by DR.. bupree
" that the methods which have been used
In getting rid OF the mosquitoes by oilins
or otherwise treating the ponds during
March and April, when the eggs are sup.
posed to be hatching, will be productive
OF little benefit, as the Matching Is going
on all the time.
OF mosquitoes In Louisiana ponds, noet Of
them in the same ponds, The species
vary from year to year. some varietiee
being abundant one year and Others the
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WHAT! NOT CATCH PICKERELc
Knob Country Citizen Laments the Erect
OF Pennsylvania Game Law.

LACKAwAxEN, Pa. Dec. 20.-sThis idee
o maxim il az In the Law to fish for pickersl
through the ice with tip-ups Is goin' to
knock the spots all out o. Christmas said
the man from the Knob country, protesting
against the latest version Of the Penn
sylvania law on the subject. what = the
use O. havin' Christmas II you can't fish
for pickerel through the Ice with tip-ups?
And what the use O. havin' ice II you can't
fish for pickerel through it3
Il want to ask them fellers that puts It In
the law that We cant keto oh pickerel with tip
ups no more, where would Sam Simon he to-
day II there hadn't never been no kitchen
pickerel through the ice' Would he be
Twin witness az in the cuss o rum? Would
he?
-lnever gee the pickerel N big and tough
and fullo' fight as they was that particular
Christ mas day me and Jake was yankin'
EN- out o. Big Pond, up here. back O Lack
Teller that had all could do to land, he 1T NO
amazin, and had him chucked out on the
ice lest as Jake come sailin' by on his skates
takin whirl around among the tip-ups
and goin' like a railroad train
40 he went by that big pickerel riz up
and grabbed Jake by the coat-tail, and Il
looked to me "a II he was reachin' up and
gulpin' In Jake's coat about three inches
every Rulp, Jake was skeert. and he took
a turn to come back. hollerin 10 me to knock
the pickerel In the head with the axe. but
Jest as Jake turned the pickere let 20, and
went sailin on over the Ice like he'd been
shot out Of a gun.
He brought up agin . tip-up that had
JEST That second gone up in the air Be-
Tore could get to 1t the pickerel had yanked
the line up out O. that hole, with another
pickerel onto II as big a. be was. That
pickerei hadn't no more than f1opped out
on the ice than t'other un pitched into him.
and u they didn't have about the properest
rough and tumble around there on the ice
before me and Jake could git EN- apart
then can't remember
The weather was cuttin' zero toler BILE
close. and when them pickerI begun 10
cool on after we had got 'em parted want
long Tore they was froze stiff and the fight
was all gone out Of EN-. ] hain't goin' ter
say how many picker'l me and Jabe yanked
up through the ice that day, but when we
took EN- home along a little after dark.
All ir0ze stih and straight as ash saplin's.
big I'll. who was the best kind OF a ledge
sized EN- up a. we ranked EN- in the kitchen
and said that he'd bet there must be ali on a
quarter OF a cord of EN-
sans Simon had been lookin' consid-
er'ble at the wine when II was red and
tarryin' pooty long and often where strong
drink was a ragin', that fall and winter
ana this Christmas whom we fetched them
ptoker.l In and stacked 'em up, Simon
came In little later and he didn't only
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deep breath, which somehow seems pulled
from the tips of the toes, instead Of from
the abdomen only.
There are ways TO insure deep breath
ing. which are very much easier than the
enforced deep breath. One Of these is by
making certain flying motions Of the head
and neck: and, by taking these motions.
you get deep breathing without trying to
do 40.
II Ia necessary first to loosen the clothing
Then the patient must lift her chin very
high, without straining her neck: and then
turn and twist the head even as bird turns
and twists.
While taking the flying exercises be
sure to eat correctly, for the stomach will
crave food, and warm food at that.