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Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28
The minister Met His Match.

Mamie was great kirk haun', 2 and
it was unfortunate that she took dis
like to the new minister who came to
the parish In her opinion he was
LIGHT" and he committed the, to her,
objectionable offence of using notes in
his sermon, and, worse than all, she
entertained grave doubts as to his be-
ing altogether "soun" on certain knotty
points Of doctrine. 1t so happened that
her manner to him was not very gra-
cious when he visited her in the kitchen,
as was his practice whenever he called
at Baldinnie On one of these occa-
sions the minister, finding Mamie more
than usually intractable, considered it
his duty to address her, in an indirect
way of course, on the danger of pride
and stubbornness Warming to his
work, he did not notice the lapse Of
time, while she on her part sat before
him with her eyes fixed on the floor,
the picture of patient attention. Sud
denly his eye lighted on the clock in
the corner, and he rose hurriedly to
his feet Dear me-" he exclaimed,
how the time has flown! | must apol-
ogize for OBTAINING you so long, Nan
ME" The old woman. rising slowly to
her feet, said, quietly, "Dinna fash yer
sell, sir | hae been rale comfortable.
It's seldom | hae the chance tae sit
sac lang, an wi naething tae think
aboot!" The feelings of the good man
may be better imagined than de-
scribed'
At Saratoga N. Y, the strike of the
trolley employees of the Hudson Valley
Railroad has been brought to a close,
the company granting the demands of the
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When M. Loubet, the French Presi.
dent was in St. Petersburg, he left
twenty-five thousand rubles for the pooi
OF that city. 1t has since been decided
not to distribute the money, butte build
with it a house in which poor families
can live without paying rent.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

Thousands of people have catarrh who
would be surprised to know it, because it
has been called some other name than ca
tarrh. The fact is catarrh is catarrh wher
ever located, and another fact which is of
equally great Importance is that Peruna
cures catarrh wherever located.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

Union Pacific yardmen at Omaha
Neb., have made a demand for an in
crease of 5 cents an hour.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

Pisos Cure for Consumption Is an infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.--N. W.
SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. j., Feb. II, 1900.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

The man who doesn't hit the mark every
time isn't failure by long shot.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

Cabmen in Berlin are on duty a little
over fifteen hours a day.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

PUTNAM FADELEss DYES cost but 10
cents per package.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces innamma-
ton, allays pain cures wind collie. 25c. bottle
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

There are 1856 counties in the United
States. Texas has the largest number,
246, and Delaware the smallest number,
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

Six million pineapples are grown for
shipment in the Bahamas annually.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
nessafter first days use of DIR. Kline's Great
NerveRestorer. S2trial bottle and treatisefree
DIR. I'll. KLINE, Ltd. 931 Arch st.. Phila., Pa.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

The yearly export of silks from Switzer'
land is valued at nearly $4,000, 000.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

Glass trades have improved somewhat
in England, the men being better en-
ployed than a year ago
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

factory results from the use Of Peruna
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving
full statement Of your case, and he will be
pleased to give you his valuable advice
gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio.
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kleptomania may not be contagious
disease, but it is taking.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

At Canandaigua, N. Y. laborcrs are
very scarce. in spite of offers of S25o
day.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28

At Saratoga, N. Y, the strike Of the
trolley employees of the Hudson Valley
Railroad has been brought to close,
the company granting the demands of the
ctrii1erS
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GRADUATES B T ss % S
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10
ANALYSIS Of KISSING
POETRY AND SCIENCE DISAGREE
ABOUT OSCILLATION
Chicago Professor, Who Evidently Has
Never Been Kissed, Calls 1t Vulgar
Theory Against Practice-Chicaeo
Boys Adopt His depressed Method"
of Courtship.

THE kiss" says an enthusiast, fs
the exclamation point that punctuates
the first sentence in the book of love-"
The kiss says Prof. Crook, lis the
outward evidence of inward vulgar
ity."
Naturally, Prof. Crook has never
been kissed. Naturally, too, he is of
Chicago The enthusiast probably had
practical proof of the aesthetic value
of a kiss. Prof. Crook, by his own con-
fession, shows that his knowledge is
purely theoretical But sixteen Chi
cagO youths have accepted the profess
sors ultimatum. I'VE will not" says
these youths, in a set of lengthy reso-
buttons, indulge in the alluring habit
of oscillation" The youths have
formed a society that is known as the
Anti Oscillation society. Their pledge
pronounces kissing demoralizing and
detrimental. while admitting that it is
delicious. This admission implies that,
unlike their leader the professor the
students have more than a theoretical
knowledge of kissing.
Even an engagement will not re-
lease the sixteen young men from their
pledge. When the fateful question has
been asked, and the bluShing maiden
answers in the most precious monasyl-
tables known to a lover, the youth
dare not seal the engagement in the
usual way. A cordial hand shake will
perhaps be the extent of the demon
stration permitted. Consequently, a
cool, dignified mien will be the youths
only safeguard. Whether this re
pressed method" of courtship will ap-
peal to the modern young woman re-
mains to be seen.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10
Some Trees q Climbed
By MABEL WRIGHT

his rival for my favors offered, in
moment of inspiration, to show me
where the pears came from, I yielded
to eternal feminine curiosity and fol-
lowed diSloyally in his wake. We walk
ed a mile, took off our shoes and
stockings, Waded a brook, then i'm
proved a ladder and climbed the pear
tree.
My dignity was quite forgotten in
the bliss of the moment, when l heard
a wild shouting on the other side of
the brook. 1t was my sweetheart and
his friends and they were making
boats of my shoes and stockings and
floating them down the stream. When
they had watched them out of sight
they crossed the brook, took away our
stepladder and spent half an hour tor
turing me with ironical illusions to
my pedal extremities, which could not
be hidden, though 1 scraped the skin
off both knees trying to get them UNI
der me.
And all the while that freckle-f faced
boy who had lured me into disgrace
stood at the tip-top of that tree, quite
out of reach of their taunts and their
missiles and giggled. When they had
gone he looked so miserable and so
small to me that 1 turned un my nose
at him and told him to go home.
What cd l do?" he asked laconic-
ally.
you might have thrown a pear at
them!" I cried. go home! 1 hate you!"
'Jes' like a grill" he replied, and,
climbing down, swung into the brook.
He did not even replace the ladder
for me, but left me there to fall into
the brook or wait until somebody else
should come to rescue me, to scramble
out Of scrapes, in fact, as best I
could.
That was the bitter. lesson on the
perfidy of man that cut deep into my
soul. Dr. Scudder may well tell girls
of fourteen to climb pear trees-late in
the pear season.
The fourth and last tree I ever
climbed was fence. I had met a
man, somewhat like DR.. Scudder, who
said he admired a girl who could do
things" climb and row and fire gum
Will DIR. Scudder please explain why
man says he admires thing and then
gets perfectly furious at his wife or
his sweetheart for doing that thing?
Why is 1t that a man will pursue a
woman with yellow hair and pink chin
for miles and yet threaten his own
wife with divorce if she attempts to
dye her hair a golden hue or to rouge
the tip end of her chin? Can DR.. Scud-
den explain why one fence should come
between two hearts, just because an
American girl climbed it?
/ once tried firing a gun, but as |
could only succeed in doing it by hold
ing the weapon out as far from me as
possible, shutting my eyes tight and
screaming, I decided that II wouldn't
be impressive. So put up two chairs
In the parlor and practiced climbing
over them. I got so could do 1t with
out catching my skirts or endangering
my nose, and then proposed a bicycle
ride to the young man, 1 thought l
would show him how could do
things"
We passed a great many fences -
rustic fences and picket fences, iron
fences and rail fences. But waited
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10

American girls ought to climb
trees and eat corned beef and cab
bage." This is the opinion of the Rev.
John L. Scudder, of the First Congre-
gational Church of Jersey City. "Give
me a girl" he declares, "who can row
a boat, climb a fence and take fish
off a hook without screaming for a
man.
On the whole, if I am going to climb
trees, I agree with DR.. Scudder regard
ing the corned beef theory. With the
memory of the first tree l ever climbed
still wildly before me, l most vehe
mently assert that I prefer my beef
corned, not alive and believing be-
meath the tree. That first tree is the
greatest tree in my memory. 1t stood
in the middle of a field. A large field
it was, and long one, and my legs
were fat and short. The bull was a re-
markedly good runner; he must have
at some time served on college team.
My hat was of the then fashionable
shade called crushed strawberry" and
very dear to my heart. When it was
all over the hat was still crushed"
but the strawberry element was
quite obliterated, and the man who
owned the bull and the field and the
tree scolded me horribly for trespass-
ing on forbidden grounds.
When DR.. Scudder says Climb
treesi" he is a bit indefinite. He really
ought to specify just what kinds of
trees and whose trees a girl should
climb. Now, cherry trees and apple
trees and pear trees are exceedingly
bad for girls of any age to climb. 1
have never climbed a cherry tree my
self, but I have instigated other girls
to do it and eaten the fruit which they
threw down-and prayed to die the
night after.
Apple trees are bad, especially other
peoples apple trees. I once climbed
another persons apple tree with my
brother Bob. The other person was
Grabbed old gentleman, who stood be-
meath the tree with a pitchfork, and
made me climb down again and go
home and tell my father on Bob before
he would let him out Of the tree. OF
course Bob paid >me back for telling,
and I carried the bruises for a fort
night.
The third tree ever climbed was a
pear tree. 1t rises before me like the
ShOSl VI d AoI BoIlSH OH. II was III bIldI
tree that I learned my bitterest les
son regarding man. l discovered how
utterly foolish it is for a girl to depend
upon any man who leads her into In
iQuity or trouble to help her out again
or to defend her from those who heap
scorn upon her. That is a good lesson
for a girl to learn at fourteen; and
was just fourteen. 1 had a great deal
of dignity, an overwhelming sense Of
curiosity and sweetheart who
brought me tiger lilies every morn
ing and pears-big, sweet, luscious
pears-every night after dark.
think preferred the pears, chiefly be-
cause knew he stole them. So when
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10
PERSONALS.

Mrs. Henry R. Hymes, of Rochester,
Mimi, is spending week with Mrs Mil
ton c. Wright, $40 Holly avenue.
DR.. and Mrs. w. R. Ramsay of the AL
bion expect to leave Europe on the 30th
inst, and to arrive in st. Paul about the
18th of August. DR.. Ramsay. has been
taking a post graduate course in diseases
OF women and children in Vienna.
Mrs. E. S. Greer, of 466 Iglehart street,
is entertaining her daughter and grand
daughter, Mrs. and Miss Holt of Wash
ington city.
Mrs R. L. Hoxsie, of Western avenue.
is entertaining the Misses Freeman, Of
Iowa City
Mrs James Mcclure and Miss Mcclure,
of Dayton avenue, have returned from
Minnetonka.
Mr. and Mrs A. P. Wallich, of Selby
avenue. are entertaining the Misses Long,
of New York City.
Miss Amanda ElSinger, who has been
attending school in the East has re-
turned home.
Mrs. John Prince, of East Eighth street,
is entertaining her daughter, Mrs. M. L.
Chemidln,' of New York.
Miss Helen Rau, of ST. Adams street,
is spending week at White Bear lake.
DR.. and Mrs. A. Macdonald, Laurel
avenue, left last night ror trip through
the Yellowstone Park and to the Pacific
coast.
Miss Margaret Broderick, Kent street,
has returned from Lake Minnetonka.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Quinlan, of Ashland
Harvard, Ill.
Mrs. L. A. Guiterman, of Dayton ave-
nue., leaves tomorrow evening for Coney
Island.
Mr. and Mrs. Il. A. Bowen, Ashland
avenue have returned from Lake Min
netonka, where they were the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Upton, and Mrs
Bowen and son left yesterday for Lake
Independence.
Mrs. MacLear, Kent street. left last
night for Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Meyer, Ashland ave-
nue., will leave shortly for Cedar Rapids.
Miss Gladys Barclay, Dayton avenue,
is visiting at Casselton, N. D., for fort
night.
Mrs. M. ]. McFadden Ashland avenue
will leave shortly for Denver.
H. r. Quinlan, Ashland avenue, is en-
PERTAINING his sister, Mrs. j. OConnor, Of
Harvard, Ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Plant, Cedar street, are
visiting in Montreal.
Miss Helen Murphy, harrington avenue,
is visiting in Seattle.
w K Field and family are spending
the summer at Lake Chisago.
Miss Nellie Nelson. Hillsboro, Ohio, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Mahan, Dayton
avenue.
W. j. Prendergast, Ashland avenue,
is visiting in New York.
Miss Grace Abbott has returned from
Redwood Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Enright have re-
turned from their wedding trip.
Mr.. Orme and daughter, of Grand ave-
nue., are in Seattle, Wash, where they
expect to spend several weeks.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10
PRETTY GIRLS AT A DISCOUNT.
They Are Seldom Wanted in the Large
Stores Of Great City.

Although all girls desire to be hand
some and those not favored with the
gift are constantly bemoaning their
fate, the plain girl has her compensa-
tions. One Of them is the ability to
procure employment if she needs it,
while her friend, more captivating in
person and manner, is turned away
one very attractive girl applied at a
large establishment recently where she
had understood help was needed.
L fear it will be impossible to make
a place for you behind our counters"
said the appointment clerk, with evil
dent regret in his tone.
And yet I understood that you
needed additional saleswomen to meet
the rush of the early summer shop
ping" she murmured. Il can furnish
the best of references as to my ability
and character. Oh, dear! This is the
fifth place in which have sought en-
ployment today, but there seems to be
nothing for me in all New York.
You're cold FLOODED proposition"
Indignantly exclaimed a friend of the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10
That Word "Obey."

Fashionable clergymen seldom insert
the word "obey" in the marriage ser
vice.
1t is the brides pet aversion. While
1t has never really prevented a we'd
ding, 1t is a stumbling block to the
altar.
pretty and tact way out of this
difficulty of the marriage ceremony,
was suggested by a bride, who sub
stituted the word yield" for obey"
and thereby asserted her right to
equality with her husband She recog-
nized his authority, but it was the au-
thority of love, not law, and to the
feminine mind there is a wide differ
ence between doing a thing you want
to do and doing it because you have to-
No man has right to rule his wife
any more than she has to rule him. If
a woman hasn't honesty enough to be
trusted with her husbands purse, if
she hasn't discretion enough to be the
confidant of his business secrets, if
she hasn't sense enough to know what
to do without being hidden like a
child, she is not fit to marry.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10
Some New Tub Gowns.

Here are some of the prettiest and
simplest of gowns for young girls.
They are all tub" gowns; one of them
is a little red and white frock, narrow
stripes of the red upon a white ground.
The waist is simply made in plaits,
stitched the full length, and the skirt
is shirred at the top with two or three
rows OF shirring set rather far apart
and running from the front breadth
around the sides and back. The front
breadth is perfectly plain, finishing
with a hem at the lower edge, around
which at the sides and back are two
or three loose looking tucks, perhaps a
little more than an inch wide. The
sleeves are perfectly plain, gathering
full a little below the elbow. Turned
back over this is little fine embroid-
cred lawn cuff. The neck is finished
with a similar little low turned down
collar of the fine embroidered lawn I'M
place of any kind of a high stock. The
result is simple and charming.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10
The Globes Daily Short Story

until we came to large field surrounds
ed by a gloriously high fence with
spikes on top, and then 1 suggested
that we stop and rest.
"Where?" said the young man.
I'm that field"
why, how on earth are you going
to get in?'
For answer I swung myself off my
bicycle and proceeded to climb. had
on a bicycle skirt and boomers. But
l had not observed that the fence was
almost covered with barbed wires.
Some fences are, you know.
And here again 1 assert that DR..
Scudder should be more specific. He
surely would not recommend a girl to
climb a barbed wire fence-certainly
not girl in a bicycle skirt.
Nonchalantly l swung myself over.
And then a horrible thing occurred.
There was loud rip and fierce sounds
of tearing, and when 1 reached the
ground on the other side l picked up
tons.
Jack White" I called, don't you
dare come over here! Don't you dare!"
why, what's the natter"
Never mind! You go home this
minute and get me another skirt. Do
you hear? If you put even so much as
your nose over this fence you may
consider our engagement at an end!"
And now everybody wonders why we
never married each other. Ask DR..
Scudder. 1t was barbed wire fences.
Since that time I have been, meta
phorically, freed again and again; but
| have learned to avoid a personal tree
or a personal fence as l would a per-
sonal devil. AS far screaming for a
man when I want to climb or take
fish off hook, / do it every time, and
am only too happy that there are men
to scream for. Besides, DR.. Scudder,
If you could only realize how they like
to be screamed for think you would
pardon girl for always looking about
to see If men are within screaming dis
lance before she attempts to do any
thing that requires physical eXertion.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10

appointment clerk as the pretty girl left
the store with eyes swimming and
mouth a-tremble. You told me yes
terday you were shy at least a dozen
good saleswomen.'
so did," returned the other calmly.
We'll, then, why didn't you give that
poor girl show? Certainly her beau
: ty ought to be a recommendation in it.
self"
Her beauty?" repeated the appoint
ment clerk with a smile. ''WelI, il was
wholly on that account that l refused
to give her a place. 1t is also the only
reason, no doubt that she did not sue
coed in obtaining employment else
where.
This is the golden era of the plain
girl in big establishments IF this kind,
and her pretty sisters have to step
aside and find employment as type
writer's, stenographers or places in Of
fees where men mostly obtain. Not
that just trace-mind, you, only a
trace-of loneliness in a saleswoman
renders her totally impracticable, rath-
er that is to be desired at times, but
uncompromising beauty is abso-
lutely too attractive, both to it's pos
SCISSOR and beholder, to further the in
terests of department stores"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10

freezing must be done with salt and
CHOPPED ice in equal parts. Make cof-
fee clear and as liked for breakfast
coffee, both as to milk and sweetening.
Sherbet should be of mush-like con-
sistency, and when freezing it is i'm
portant to remember the rule given
for frappe. Sherbet is really frozen
punch, with one stiffly beaten white of
an egg sLirred into every quart: lemon
or orangeade may be used instead. If
gelatine is used a tablespoonful dis
solved in quarter cup of water will
beat up, when just forming into jelly,
and will be white and foamy
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10

Never select mealy potato for a
salad and for this reason a slightly
waxy new potato is better than one
with ripened starch cells. Cook the
potatoes without peeling; when cold
slice thinly or cut into tiny cubes
Cook some new beets until tender.
then hold under the cold water faucet
Tor minute when the skins will Slip
off easily. Cut in slices and from the
slices stamp small fancy shapes with
one of the little cutters which are in
dlspensable in making garnishes. Chop
the trimmings of beet and mix with
the potato. Pour over the whole
enough French dressing to make it
palatable and set in the ice chest for
an hour to ripen. When 1t is time to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10

serve the salad arrange in a mound
on glass plate, divide in sections
with the beet garnish and add a few
crisp lettuce leaves. Some tastes pre-
fer boiled dressing and others would
suggest adding a teaspoonful of graf
ed onion to the potato and beet. This
small amount of grated onion is alb
sorbed by the potato while standing
in the ice chest and gives a very diff
ferent flavor from the rank taste of
bits of sliced onion. A few sprigs of
parsley cut very fine may be sprinkled
over the top or rub the yolk of hard
boiled egg through a wire strainer to
make a yellow powder over the salad
before it is garnished with the red
beet. Alice e. Whitaker
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10
Fashion in Fans.

Pretty Viennese and Japanese fans
wear well with. dainty summer fabrics.
Carved bone and wooden sticks are u.s.
ed, as the ivory sticks are reserved
for the more dressy affairs. The real
~ new designs are heart-shaped. On
a foundation of silk are flowers of
applique lace, with the head of beau
tiful girl painted on vellum peeping out
from beneath the petals of the blooms.
The mount of some OF these is mother
of pearl. For bridesmaids has been
designed a bouquet fan that hangs
from the wrist by a ribbon or chain,
like a gay flower. When opened it
reveals a fan of silk, with edgings
of silken peoples, ylolets, lilies of the
valley, or other favorite flowers, which
are perfumed with the odor of the fiow-
er chosen.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-10

come in various novel designs. A pref
ty one is formed of four large diamond
shaped pieces of the material, which
are framed and fastened one to the
other, at the central points An inner
wire frame gives the necessary firm
ness. The lower half of each diamond
is finished with wide silk fringe in a
color to match the flowers of the Gre
tonne.