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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-28
Heroes for Sciences Sake.

r ways showing bravery times when
90 quietly that the
they have
the eruption Martinique St. Vincent
VesuEus notice 1t has been found
world large that for little band of heroes
upon it's slopes and at the risk Of their lives
systematically studied the phenomena Of volcanoes and
attendant earthly disturbances.
Life is anything but comfortable under such conditions
the feature of danger from the dbbng overflow
possibility eruption 1872
out its burden of lava
that the glass the windows
hot and cracking the smelled of scorchng
wood numbers break
unshuttered windows Surely the world should take off its
heroes, danger continually,
nothing them while they
The vanishing wild flowers, it seems, have become
ldwde complaint Eidelweiss has disappeared
haunts in the Swiss Alps and be found
5000 feet above the In the Alps Just
passed for the protection of the Alpine flowers
mems left
One who knows much about the Indians especially
the southwest, delightful
doing his ciyzng The is Charles F. Lummis who
long with the Indians In the Arizona,
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-28
THE woRLD's SMOKE BILL

THE WORLDS H.
world 6,300 100000 pounds tobacco
yearly or This is worth $3.50
words worlds smoke bill is just S. o00 900
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-28
Mae Harris Ansor'

published Minneapolis journal for the public
school children the fifth ade and
principally their writings There is no expense
competitors The editor wishes to
correspondence suggestions from teachers All
repondence addressed to the Editor Journal Junior
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-28

EVENTEEN advertisements in this week in
which the word nickel" spelled "nickle.'
Among those seventeen several that would
have been considered among the possible prize
winners but for this fact. Now really is it worth
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-28

EARLY USE OF STAMPS.
Stamps first mentioned by Synesius, bishop
Cyrene, about 300 A. D.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21
Present.

Ladies' Storm Collar and Fur Collar
cites, combination gray muf1loon
and electric seal, natural 0pOssum
and electric seal. regular price $50.
Choice for this week at. 81 rs
special price .-..---------.-- 49,
Combination, gray lamb and cOney,
black lamb and brown OposSum and
Persian lamb and natural OpOSsum.
Regular price up 10 $1,000 Choice.
special for this week, 81 nm
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21

the result be known. When he re-
turned his price was $3.50 an acre. He
had been told that the supply of oil
was inexhaustible- I sent him off. and
it was a week later when he turned up
for the third time, and said:
Well, colonel, I've come to make
a dieker with yen about that land.
Have YOU raised your figures to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21

sent into the oil section of Ohio by
certain capitalists. and / got my eye
on a tract of land belonging to an old
chap named Barnes. He would not
allow test well TO be driven and when
oiIered $50 an acre at a venture he
replied:
/ want what my land is worth and
Of experience a few years ago. was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21

no more. viii consult dream book
and see you later
Two or three days after he called
on me and said the dream book told
him that there was a large lake of oil
under his land, and that he must not
sell short OF $1,000 an acre I laughed
at him, and he went away saying he
would consult a fortune teller and let
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21

to me, says she:
g Jacob. If there's any man fool
'nough to think he kin find a pint Of
lie under our land let him have it at
his own price. .
And so you'll take $50 an acre.
I'm calculatin' I Will
The land was bought at the figure
named, and although $500 was ex-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21

$1,000 an acre?s 1 queried.
No. sir; my figures have gone
down TO $780,
How did that happen2'
Well. I consulted. the dream book
and it told me to ask a thousand. I
went to a fortune teller and she told
me to ask fifteen hundred Then I
went 10 nay old woman and she said
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21

pended in sinking wells the syndicate
never got enough oil TO grease the ma
chinery.p
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21
HIS OLD WOMAN BEAT.
Colonel Hires Bit of Experience Re
garding Dreams.

AS TO dreams and dream books, -
said Colonel Hires of Indiana, who was
in Detroit the other day. I had bit
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21

Bromo Lax Contains no Quinine.
The quick and safe cure for colds
and headache. No bad effects
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21

Pretty White Aprons.
Ladies White Lawn Apron. T0A
with lace edge, for ...................A%S =
White Lawn Aprons with wide 2Sc
Dainty Afternoon Tea Aprons. 2Sc
lace and ribbon trimmed ..--....--. y
Dainty Swiss Tea Aprons. with deep
ruffle of lace; also lace insertion, and
embroidery trimmed. in prices go
SEC, SOC, CSC and -.--..---------.---- q - =
Nurses Aprons, with cluster Of tucks
also fine hemstitched tucks with neat
hemstitched shoulder revers, 20A
for 75c, SOC and -----------------.---- - - -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21
7 Tapestry Couch
and
Table Covers.

Cross Stripe Couch Covers, fun size and
good selection Of patterns. 81 So
each ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ------ = =
Armrre Tapestry Couch Covers. actual
value s. 80. % S6
eacn -------------------..
Indian Reversible Couch Covers, four diff
ferent color combinations. 81 m
regular price 81. 90. each---.--.- = -
Oriental Tapestry Couch Covers. five dif-
ferenf patterns. regular "a QE
value s. 90, each -.---.---..-.... - =
Ten dozen Tapestry Table Covers. actual
size two yards square, e. PC
worth 500, each -..-.-.---...-..a = a -
81 Genuine Kashgad Tapestry Table
Covers. actual value 800, 81 m
eaSl -
The Somerset reporter., 1902-12-25
Social Gathering,

The third social gathering for young
men and young ladies In connection with
the First Baptist Church was held In
the vestry on Monday evening. The
following program was carried out:
Music, "Our Director march, by
orchestra of four pieces; piano, Mrs.
Huse; vIolins, Mr.. Fred North and Mr..
Arthur Merchant; Flute, Mr.. Huse
Paper, "Absolutism in our republic, !"
Mr.. Angler Goodwin; solo, Miss Eldena
Smith; selected reading, 1.-THE Christ
mas Sheaf, Mrs. E. w. Marble; vocal
duet, Mrs, q. A. Dunnington and Mr..
J. Harvey White.
After refreshments the remainder
Of the evening WAS spent in games OF
general character as provided by the
committee. The attendance was sixty.
The date of the next social will prob
ably be Jan. 9Th, Monday evening.
The committee appointed to arrange
the next program consists of Mrs.
Wesley Grover, Mr.. Grover, Mr.. Eldon
Boyd, Mr.. William Lesvitt, Miss Flor
ence Knight.
The Somerset reporter., 1902-12-25
DIED.

Madison-Dec. l1th, Maria Kendall Merrill,
aaugnter OF the late Nathaniel p. and Eliza
oe.n a.. MERRILL aged 80 years. 1month, IL days.
skowhegan, Dec. N-Mrs. Eliza Jane, wife of
John Tuttle. aged 70 years.
The Somerset reporter., 1902-12-25
BORN

skowhegan-Dec. is, to the wife of Frank
Murphy, q son.
Harmony-Dec. 18th, to the wife OF Lee Coll
ins, q daughter.
The Somerset reporter., 1902-12-25

Let us frame your picture. We take
out all of the wrinkles and use a new
kind of backing that will not stain the
picture and ask you no more.
BRAGG & VARNEY.
The Somerset reporter., 1902-12-25
MARRIED.

New York Cfty-Nov. 18th, Mr.. George Perry
Hartlsnd-Dec. II. by Rev. O. H. Johonnett,
Mr. Otis Leroy BlaisdelI and Miss Marguerite
Woodman, both Of Hartland
The Somerset reporter., 1902-12-25
Get the Most
Out of Your Food

You don't and can't if your stomach
is weak. A weak stomach does not di-
gest all that is ordinarily taken into it.
1t gets tired easily, and what it fails to
digest is wasted.
Among the signs of weak stomach
are uneasiness after eating, fits of ner-
yous headache, and disagreeable belch-
ing.
II have taken Hoods Sarsaparilla at
different times for stomach troubles, and a
run down condition of the system, and have
been greatly benefited by its use. / would
not be without it in my family. l am trou-
bled especially in summer with weak stom-
ach and nausea and find Hoods Sarsaparilla
invaluable" L. b. HICKMAN, W.Chester, Pa.
Hoods JdrSdpdrill0
and Pills
Strengthen and tone the stomach and
the whole digestive system.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-12
fagotting in white or black silk.

fagotting in white or black silk.
Hats are very fanciful and lavishly
trimmed, some of them noticeably pic
turesque with their long plumes and lace
frills over the brim. The most summary
hats have large Hopping brims and one
long plume with rosette of lace, chiffon
or ribbon at one side, or they are entire
ly covered with flowers. White crino-
line hats are swagger, also very light.
They are trimmed with a long black
feather, loop bow of black velvet at
one side and bunch of white cIematis
tucked in under the brim. Some of the
made hats of null. batiste embroidery
and lace in combination are charming in
the wide-brimmed sailor shape. The null
is shirred for the foundation and one or
two wings or breasts are used as trim
ming. Hats of shirred taffeta and en-
broidery are also pretty. Outing hats
are of pique, grass linen, lace-like straws
and duck. They are trimmed with scarfs
of silk, bows of ribbon or wings. The
Panama with a simple band is seen and
worn occasionally. The bandeau is used
in nearly all dress hats. 1t is placed
around the inside Of the crown, which
raises the hat slightly. This does not
interfere with the angle Of brim and
makes the hat more becoming.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-12
Volunteer Pension Grabber..

Five regiments of regular infantry
that took part in the battles at San
tiago and lost 604 men in killed, wound
ed and missing have furnished 764 APP
plicants for pensions. From five regi-
ments of volunteers that did not lose
a man in any Of the battles come 1897
claims for pensions. AS we are for
hidden to assume that the volunteers
were any less unselfish in their patri-
otto devotion than the regulars, the
only possible inference from this con-
trast is that the volunteers were sadly
unfit to withstand exposure, since more
than half of them represent themselves
as permanently disabled by their short
Philadelphia Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-12

Crepe de chine in these color schemes
will hold to the styiishness it has had all
summer, and there is promise, too, of a
continuance, for evening, of white. The
last is just now the stylish silk for dress
ups, and is made most deliberately. In
the initial and the middle figure of the
second picture the artist shows, in front
and rear view, dress of this silk. Tucks,
brussels lace, appliqued pink chiffoni roses
and black velvet were its trimmings.
Position backs on waists are not de-
creasing in numbers, and the later mod
els are more fanciful than ever. Lace
and embroidery seem to be favored just
at present, and inconsequential little
tabs are numerous. Crepe de chine
gowns in white embroidered in red down
either side of a tucked tablier front are
very fine. This tablier idea is much in
evidence among new gowns.
Hint is given that fall standards in
trimmings will not permit the extrava-
gantly free establishment that has pre-
vailed this summer. Indeed, dresses for
August, while not yerging on the severe,
are not lavishly trimmed. This applies
solely to the matter of quantity, for in
quality your fashionable woman still is
q stickler for the best at any price. So
lace, embroideries, passementeries or
other new trimmings spell outlay. Linen
color and white are abundant among
materials, and grass linen entirely en-
broidered with electric blue silk soutache
is an odd new treatment. A stylish en-
Enlistment of white linen may be seen
at the right in the second picture The
inset portions were outlined with white
Chiffon quilting. the bands were ecru lace
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-12
Home and Foreign Prices.

The higher prices at home than
abroad for the products of American
labor are Illuminating ii more respects
than one. They show that thu wages
paid do not cause the high prices at
home, otherwise they would forbid the
sale of such products abroad. The abil-
!ty of the manufacturers to compete in
foreign markets demonstrates their
ability to compete in the home market
II the tariff were removed entirely.
Where it touches the trusts particular
ly is in showing that domestic compe-
ution does not keep down prices. for
the very ample reason that II is shut
eus by combinations powerful enough
to control production at home.-Louls-
vile Courier-Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-12
Playing with Moro. fire.

In various parts OF the country there
has been an extraordinary NUMBER Vi
tragedies of late arising out Of the adVen-
lures OF unmarried women with married.
men. Morbid literature, chiefly OF lot
eign birth or extraction. has been pro-
noting in this country the myth OF pia-
tonic affection between men and women,
married and single. Almost invariably
the prismatic illusion is aetualzed IN
somber ending. If crime does not smlrch
both the parties or annihilate either the
reputation Of both suffer, and 1t Is the
unwritten law that the woman IN sueh
case suffers beyond repair, while the gull
ty man escapes or endures with compla-
cency the stigma which cannot be Ell
faced from the future of his companion
There is no prudence in mincing words
about these escapades. married man
or woman who seeks intimate and con-
slant companionship outside the family
circle to which he or she belongs is eth
er libertine or fool.
No plea of extenuation can be set up
for the moral laches of a married man or
married woman. They know perfectly
well that they are playing with fire or
playing the trapper of inexperience. No
family of intelligence or self-respect will
tolerate social attentions from married
man to an unmarried woman when those
attentions transcend the bounds Of abso-
lutte decorum. Yet mothers who are am
bilious or avaricioas will let their inno-
cent daughters play with this moral fire
with whose flame nine times in ten they
are bound TO be burnt.
Many a blackened home is grim
monument to the satanic character of the
myth of platonic love between married
men and unmarried women and no less
often between married women and un-
married men.-Chicago Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-12
Not the Man for the place.

1t is semi-officially announced that
the Presidents chum, Wood, IL to be
G!aced in charge of the construction of
the Panama canal. The selection is
Improper and can be explained only
upon grounds Of favoritism. II will
sarely arouse popular protest An
army doctor, who CHANGED to be on
terms Of intimacy with the occupant
os the White House, Woods advance
ment has been rapid-far more so than
often comes to men Of greater merit
But upon what ground of fitness or ex-
perience could Woods selection rs a
canal constructor be possibly con-
dsned ALBANY (N. " Argus.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-12
Changes Of a Lifetime.

It took the Roman republic some ages
to pass from the simple poverty Of its
early DAYS upon the seven hills to the
age of Augustus, but the American re-
public has made that change in one gen.
Grafton.
In the second decade Of the nineteenth
century the lives of the American people
were severely simple and plain. Most or
the necessaries of life were raised on the
farm by the people living on it. Most OF
their trading was done by barter. The
country people scarcely ever got in the
course Of year more than enough money
to pay their taxes. The farmers houses
were almost destitute of furniture. Ex-
cept few school books and the family
Bible, there was no reading matter, ex-
cept IN favored neighborhoods where two
or three families took a weekly newspa-
per together. Mails were infrequent and
postage was almost prohibitory. The era
OF invention had not begun. The only
means Of cooking was the open fire and
the brick oven. Meat was roasted by
euspending from a cord attached to a
hook in the ceiling. 1t was with great
difficulty that fires were started or kept
going. Tools and food and the labor of
men and animals were freely borrowed
and lent Farming tools were rude and
deficient The poverty of farms in re-
spect to tools made it impossible for farm
ers to prosper except by cattle raising
and the cultivation of the small grains.
Heating stoves OF furnaces We're I'M
known. Communication between dis
tant parts OF the country was practically
non-existent and transportation was of
the crudest sort Men were narrow and
bigoted. Civilization was stationary.
There was a prejudice against innova-
ton and change, a belief that all wisdom
was in the fathers.
Contrast this simple, narrow life with
the complex and broad life of the poorest
farmer OF our times. Think OF the tools
and horses, the machinery and the i'm
proved methods he has. Think of the
comforts and luxuries that are his. Think
how farming has been changed from
slavery to inspiring work. Then con-
trast the picture OF the past with the
general wealth, progress In education, diff
fusion Of knowledge, opportunities and
hopefulness OF our own times. Only the
beginnings of the great power of the
people are 50 far seen. As a matter of
fact the tremendous changes wrought by
improvement of communication and
transportation have made it possible for
great free governments to exist perma-
nently.
1t is now and ever will be the fashion
20 talk OF the good old times, but in
America the old times are not to be COM
pared with ours. Our wealth has not
spoiled the nation. though 1t has ruined
some classes. At the core the nation is
sounder now than formerly because it Is
wiser and better trained and equipped
Minneapolis Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-12
NHFDITOpIAIS|
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS


/ ton, when one comes to think OF it, is a
simple one. Women have for innum-
cradle generations been engaged in work
which does not admit of vacations, while
mans work does. Hence a public opin-
ion has grown up in the one case which
does not exist in the other.
The type Of woman who is liable to
overwork is conscientious. If she goes
away for an absolute rest of a month
or three months, or a year, she hears a
chorus Of voices denouncing her as idle,
incompetent or neglectful of duty. This
is especially the case IL she be the mother
Of a family. She never gets away from
the care of that family, and she is al
ways conscious Of the fact that il any
thing happens in her absence she will be
condemned by a jury Of her peers for
having been away when it occurred. This
sort of thing takes all the rest out OF a
vacation, and few people have the nerve
to disregard it.
This morbid couscientiousness, how
ever, is not a thing 10 encourages. The
thing which every human being should do
is to make sure, first, that he or she has
fair amount of the work Of the world
TO do, and second, to stop when that share
is done. il a rest is necessary.
OF course, most people who are worth
anything in life do more than their share
Of work. but they should not break them
selves down in the process. Every sensi-
bic person should find out how far it is
possible TO go, with safety to health and
usefulness, and stop there unless life and
death are involved. In that way
more will be accomplished for ones self
and for others than by continual over
work out of some notion of pride or duty
which is not real canscientiousness at
ali.-New York News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-12
The Press and Crime.

Much has been said and written upon
the idea that the press, by the publication
OF the d-tails Of crime, incites 10 the
commission Of other crimes. Because the
derails Of suicide or 4 murder are some
times copied by other suicides or muir
derers there are those who genaralize
from that fact that curb should be put
upon the press to restrain them from Civ
ing the sensational incidents of such ira
gedies.
People who argue In that fashion to
such conclusions understand human ma
ture imperfectly. They who know most
OF the psychology of the human animal
understand that there Is no rigid law of
imitativeness that will explain Incidental
replications of example. The fltility of
appealing to any such law was evidenc-
ed in the cases of Cain and Abel The
law does not exist, else both those boys
would have been righteous instead II but
the one, and to-day we would be rejoiced
by seeing only good boys and good girls
in the families Of which the parents are
models of morality.
Humanity is born crcked-twisted into
a living Interrogation point. 1t wants
to know all about things as soon as il
finds out that there are things. IL instinc-
lively wants to put this and that together
and get at the ends of things-and that
is why the baby tries to put his toes in
his mouth! That same Unborn curiosity
follows the human creature always and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-12

II. LABoUcHERE. care a fig for pub
lie opinion or for the good will OF any
creature under the sun, yet in some re-
spects he is immensely popular.
Mr.. Labouchere is no longer young.
He passed the seventy-1ve-mile post on
Ilfe's journey some months ago. He is
an omnivorous reader. but small eat
er. Except at the stern command OF
his physician he has not touched wine
for years. and then the order was lin
tied to ore glass of claret daily. He Is
equGiIy Indifferent to eating and to his
surroundings and would dine as will
ing.y In the cheapest restaurant as in
a fashionable hotel and sleep as COM
fortably il an attic as In palace.
He Is a radical of the radicals and
represents Northampton In Parliament.
He has been involved in many libel
suits. and at one time Sir Charles Rus
sell accused him OF wearing shabby
clothes IA order to reduce the damages
in such cases of litigation.
At % years "Labby" was an attache
OF the British legation at Washington,
where he Is dimly remembered as a
rather fresh" youngster. fond OF play
ing Mr.. Seldmportant. In 1868 he was
made second secretary OF Constantine
pie, but failed TO assume his duties.
Formal inquiry was made as TO the
reason for his delay. and In due course
a letter arrived at the Foreign Office
stating that as inadequate provision
had been made for his travelling ex-
penses and that as his private means
were limited the attache was walking
and would In due time reach the shores
OF the Bosphorus In tbs following
year he left the diplomatic service
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-12

accounts for the enormous growth Of
newspapers and gives invincible support
to the doctrine of the freedom OF the
press.
| One of the greatest laments Of read
| ing civilization is that the worlds his
tory begun before the printing press was
I, invented and the reporter who interviews
got on the scene. How really satisfying
it would be even now to read the details
Of the meeting between Satan and Eve,
a stenographic report os their CONVERSE
ton and graphic interviews with Adam
after he got fred from the Garden OF
Eden and with Noah after he ran
aground on Ararati
Newspaper makers know human ma
ture better than amateur moralists. They
do not mad that news reports of crimes
breed crimes any more than news reports
OF sermons breed conversions, or news
reports of gifts TO charity set everybody
or many bodies crazy TO make large dona-
tons and get their names printed. The
real newspaper gives the news-the sto-
ries of the daily life of the world tins
good. the evil, the wise and the silly, be-
cause the public want to know It all ana
will be satisfied with nothing less. Inc
newspaper is printed for the ninety and
nine that are wide awake, and not LOT
the one who yearns for the milienniai
age,-Atlanta Constitution.