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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

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liberation and Inflammation of the
womb has been cured in two or three
weeks through it's use, and as find it
purely an herbal remedy, l unhesitat-
ingly give it my highest endorsement.
-Fraternally yours, DIR. 2. VIRoqUA,
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If you are ill do not hesitate to
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hams Vegetable Compound at
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To Make Clothes Last.

Never in home dressmaking cut any
kind of woolen goods until it has
been sponged, as cheap material IS
often not dampened before it is sold.
To do this properly at home get an
ironing board or table the width OF
the goods, and cover with tightly
stretched calico. Spread your cloth
wrong side up cover with linen cloth
that has been well rung out in water,
and then press with a hot iron the
lengthwise of the goods. Never let
the iron be still, and while pressing
allow the goods to fall evenly onto
clean cloth placed on the floor.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09
Woman Census Takcr,

1t was through the death of her hus-
band that Mrs. Daniel A. Button of
Pontiac, Mich, became the first wom-
an census enumerator a number of
years ago. She had been in the habit
of arranging and copying the work of
her husband, who was one of the
deputies appointed for census pur-
poses. When left alone Mrs. Button
applied for her husbands position,
in due time receiving the appointment
1t was decided by the government
after receiving her reports that the
manufacturing statistics should be
compiled for the first time in the his
tory of the census, and this work was
placed in her hands. Mrs. Button
found it difficult task, as she had
to visit personally every mandatory,
large or small, in the district, and as
certain the amount and cost of ma
terial used, the value of the articles
purchased, the expense of production,
ord the gain or loss per year. Upon
f~al report to the su-
census bureau
letter Of CON-
llence of her
halls badge
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09
PRINCESS VIRoQUA, NJ. D.
Endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound After
Following Its Record For
Years.

"DEAR Mrs. PINKuAM Health is
the greatest boon bestowed on human
ity and therefore anything that can
restore lost health is a blessing.
consider Lydia e. Pinkhan's Veg.
etable Compound as blessing to
State and Nation. 1t cures her moth
ers and daughters and makes them
well and strong.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first days use of DIR. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer $2trial bottle and treatise free
DR.. r. II. KLINE, Ltd, 93l Arch ST., Phila. Pa.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

We refund 10c for every package OF PUT
NAM FADELEss DYE that fails to give satlslae-
ton. Monroe Drug Co.. Unionvile, Mo.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09
Not n Burning Crime.

Gladys-Were you alarmed when he
Kissed you?
Ethel-Dreadfully!
Gladys-And did you scream?
Ethel-Oh no! 1t was a stili
alarm Puck.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

An Englishmau, thirty years Old, may
EXPECT thirty-three years two montns more
of life; a woman of that age thlrty-four
years one month more.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

The average girl is capricious. She will
tell fellow he is the light OF her HE and
then turn him down.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

Mrs Winsiow's Soothing Syrup for chillrel
teething, soften the gums. reduces intlamma
ton. allays pain, cures wind collie. 25o q bottla
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

The first American telescope was put in
! position at Yale College in 1880.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

Sou Wales raises more coal than any
othe of Great Britain.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

Geologists are not the only people who
are out for the rocks.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

The British boot and shoe trade is
largely dependent upon American ma
chinerV
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

Fl for Consumption is an infallible
medic. oughs and colds.-N.W. SAMUEL,
Ocean g. n. j., Feb. II. 1900.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09
Best For the Bowels.

No matter what ais you, saiaohs to
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. CAsCARHTs help nature,
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cents to start getting your health back. Cas-
CARETs Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up
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With the aid Of microphone you can
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

With the aid of a microphone you can
hear a fly walk.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09
ss's Cloaks.

ss's Cloaks.
cloak worn
| make every
! with envy"
n who bad
sit in New
elk, and if
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d it off for
rhe woman
the season
i won't say
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geon, | think.
from China,
He found it
where a lot of
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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

Halls Family Pills are the best.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-20
CHAPTER ~.
SIR HENRY BASKERVILLE,

Our breasfast-table was cleared early,
and Holmes waited in his dressng-gown
for the promised interview Our clients
were punctual to their appointment, for
the clock had just struck ten when DR..
Mortimer was shown up. followed by the
young baronet. The latter was a small,
alert, dark-eyed man about thirty years
of age, very sturdily built with thick
black elbows and q strong, pugnacious
face. He wore a ruddy-tinted tweed
suit and had the weather-beaten appear
ance of one who has spent most Of his
time in the open air. and Yet there was
something in his steady eye and the quiet
assurance of his bearing which indicat-
ed the gentleman.
This is Sir Henry Baskerville said
DR.. Mortimer.
Why, yes said he. "and the strange
thing is, Mr.. Sherlock Holmes, that if
my friend here had not proposed COM
ing round to you this morning l should
have come on my own account. l I'M
derstand that you think out little puz.
zles and I've had one this morning which
wants more thinking out than l am able
TO give to it
understand you to say that you have
yourself had some remarkable experience
since you arrived in London?"
Nothing of much Importance. Mr..
Holmes. Only a joke. as like as not.
It was this letter. if you can call it a
letter. which reached me this morning"
He laid an envelope upon the table,
and we all bent over it. 1t was of COM
mon quality, greyish in color. The ad-
dress. Sir Henry Baskerville. North
cumberland Hotel, was printed in rough
characters: the postmark. "Charing
Cross and the date Of posting the pre-
ceding evening.
Who knew that you were going to the
Northumberland Hotel?" asked Holmes.
glancing keenly across. at our visitor.
No one could have known. We only
decided after 1 met DR.. Mortimer
But DR.. Mortimer was no doubt al
ready stopping there?"
No, had been staying with a friend"
said the doctor. There was no pos
sible Indication that we intended to so
to this hotel
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-20

blackbird, an askin' me about the in
dustres o the town. He asst all hands
to drink, an flashed a good wad when
he paid for the round, an he laughed
hearty when I told him, half joke an
whole earnest, that draw poker was the
principal industry. l knowed 'twa MT
no use wastin' time. an he were just as
likely to be caught with quick play
as he We're with a long palaver.
We'll, the stranger-Plunlitt he said
his name were-Obed Plunkitt-he were
a thin, nervous little man that looked
like YOU could put him in your pocket
an walk home. but he were as quick as
mules hind leg. an he spoke up laugh
in an serious, too. an he says he don't
mind investin a little money in draw
poker, just for a flyer. I don't make
You say you do. but I speculate some.
an what l like about draw poker is that
You get quick results
..'Peared like it were cocoanuts drop
PIN offn the trees. right in the mouth
of a starvin' man. The boys didn't show
no indecent haste. but there want no
time lost afore there was four of 'em
sittin round the card table with Plum
kit in the fifth seat an I were sellln
of em chips. Everybody took a hundred
dollars except Jake Winterbottom an he
stranger he didn't make no kick. an
none O. the home talent was likely to
say nothin' KNOWN Jakes value in the
matter o. dealin. Bassett want never
any good in the deal an Blaisdell is
on'y just fair, but Winterbottom can
most always place the cards pretty much
where he likes. He's a good al-round
player, though he does sometimes make
mistakes Sam Pearsal was the fifth
player, an KNOWN how well the home
talent understood each other, I Just nat
urally figured that it were on'y a uues-
ton O. how much this here Plunkitt fell
Ter were willin to invest.
..'Peared like that were about the size
Of it. too for the first twenty minutes
The bows is too smooth to waste any
unnecessary skill on the game when
there's easy money in sight, an it didn
look, for a time, like there'd be any call
for Winterbottom to stretch hisself for
Plunktt PLAYED what looked like a ten
derfoots game right FIN sthe beginnin'
You couldn't keep him out of Jackpot
with a gun if there was more'n one other
PLAYER in, an. he had anything at all to
draw to- Feared like any sort of a pair
was good enough for his money If he
could get odds in the betting. an time
an again he took one card an, then lad
down after the draw against two three
card draws, indicatin' that he were tryl
to fill straights an Pushes without no
luck to back him. S35z55
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-20
SYNOPSIS OF
FORMER MSTALMENLS

Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead
lnder mysterious circumstances that led
che credulous to believe that he had
been pursued to his end by a traditional
enemy OF his race in the shape of a
hellish hound that had reIentlcusly fol-
lowed his race since the days of the wild
Hugo Baskerville. DR.. Mortimer the
friend and family physician Of the dead
man. called On Sherlock Homes, the
Sreat detecti-e TO solicit his aid in solv-
Ing the mystery. He has given him all
The detail connected with Sir Charles
Geath. including the private one that the
tracks Of q huge hound were Visible
within a few yards of where the dead
man was found. He asks Holmes advice
about allowing Sir Charles heir to take
UP the abode that has proved SO fatal
TO his predecessors. Holmes asks time 20
think the matter over and makes an en-
Eagement for Dr. Mortimer and Sir Hen
~, the heir. to call upon him the next
morning, when he promises to give them
the benefit of his thought on the nlys-
terry.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-20
HOW OBED PIJJNKITT PLAYED MASTERY POKER
19a
By DAVID A. CURTIS-Copyrighted by ROBERT HOWA

Just naturally 'twa'n't long afore
they drove him to the bone-yard, an 1
were speculatin' on how many times
he'd make the\ trip afore he'd quit. He
didn't git excited none. so I didn't s'pose
he'd plunge much, but he looked to me.
judgin' by the size Of his Wad. like he'd
drop four or five hundred. maybe, an
four or five hundred just then was i'm
portant money to the boys.
But just as I had it all reckoned up
comfortable in my mind, Plunllitt filed
one O them flushes O his'n. an there
bein' three aces an a straight out
against him, he got two calls when he
bet forty dollars, which was all he had
in front of him Bassett had the
straight an o course he had to call,
an Blaisdell. gettin the third ace to his
openers, called. for fear Bassett might
ha' been blufIin' when he stood pat. It
were a clear case o. two o the home
players interferin with each other an
they was both pretty sore about it. spe-
cially as they'd both sized Plunkitt for
a bluff when he raised it as he did.
co course. that were a fuke an no.
body want scared none even if Plunkitt
did get a fresh start. He WANT likely
to last long. playin' the way he did, an
sure enough. 'twa'n't more,n ten or iif-
teen minutes afore he were buyin. again.
line game was Settln pretty warm, an
I will say that Plunkitt want no ways
slow about the way he put up If his
Judgment had been as good as his nerve,
he'd ha' been pretty fair player.
though he want by no means up to the
Arkansas City standard.
But nerve is one O the things that
has to be reckoned in studying the
science O. poker. same as judgment, an
that's why it happened. as I said in the
first place, that somethin happened to
upset the theories of the game. for; just
when it seemed like as if artistic play
was eoin' to finish up this here Plunkitt,
he flashed up a counter-bluff that want.
no ways to be looked for FIN a tender
foot. an got out somewhere about even
on the game
TT happened this way. Plunkitt
bought his fourth hundred. but when
he bought it. he said that was about
as far as he cared to go, an we could
all see that he meant it, He hadn't got
excited none, an it was pretty certain
that there want no more TO be had out
of him, so just naturally the boys made:
= quick PLAY for that hundred. It were
Blaisdelrs deal an Winterhottom opened
the pot forzten dollars, him havin a
mir 8. oueens Pearsall stayed an
sPlunkitts stayed. but the others dropped
out Winterbottom took three cards an
bet a white chip. not havln, bettered.
-Pearsall stood pat, hayin IS q four full.
an Plunkitt took one card, SO we reck-.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-20

oned he were DRAWN to flush, as
usual.
"Pearsall raised it twenty-five an
Plunkitt come back at him with sixty
more, bein' all he had in front of him.
Just naturally, Pearsall with a full house
had to cal, an Plunkitt showed down
jack full.
THAT give him about two hundred
force him quick on that, specially as twas
WinterbottoE's deal. SO when Bassett
found three tens in his hands. he knowed
pretty we'll what to expect, an he opened
dollars. Pearsall an Blaisdell dropped an
Plunkitt raised it twenty. Winterbot-
tom laid down. an Bassett. havin' a
strong notion o gettin' the fourth ten
with fifty more an Plunkitt made good.
'Bassett took two cards an throwed
in a. white chip afore he looked at 'em,
for Plunkitt stood pat. an Bassett
knowed he'd get raise. He got it all
right for Plunkitt came back al him with
all he had which were some over hun
bred dollars.
Then Bassett looked for his fourth ten
an didn't find It, Winterbottom had slip
ped up, an Bassett were throwed on his
Punkitt would rake the pot. givin him
eighty odd dollars winnin's. an If he
ca He'd it were altogether likely that it'd
be a hundred an eighty for the little fell
up some kind of a bluff that would fo'ce
Punkitt out an there couldn't be no
bluff made with chips for they was play
in table stakes. an Plunkitt was all up.
He thought it over for a minute, an
then he made monStTous good play even
if it didn't turn out. He. showed up the
chips to cover Plunkitt's raise an pull
in his revolver out of his pocket he laid
it along side his chips. I see your hun
dred, an go you five better, he said, in
a way that nobody could help but I'M.
derstand- There amt one tenderfoot in
hundred that wouldn't have laid down
under the circumstances. but Plunkytt
was the hundredth man.
II told you how quick he was. Well.
Bassett hadn't got the words out of his
mouth when he was lookin right down
the barrels O. two revolvers. PIunkitt
had en- out so quick You couldn't see
where he drawed EN- from. an he had
one in each hand. full cooked. with his
fingers on the triggers.
..All he said was Make 1t ten but his
tone was as easy to understand as B1s-s
sett's, an Bassett didn't lose no time
sayin' That's good. He throwed down
his cards an Plunkitt had ralSed the pot
an brought the chips to me to cash in
afore the boys fairly realized what had
happened
.sThere was some talk of a rough house
but Punkitt didn't scare a. little bit, M
the boys thought 1t wouldn't be good
policy I can't say that I call PIunkitt.
a really good player. but he certainly
PLAYED poker that time all right VIXEN
he was up against It. = /
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-20

but its kindergarten poker. after all.
What I'm talkin' about is them unusual
Happenings that shows up the genuine
science o the game. An there is times
when ba hes an sucklins. as the Good
Book calls en-. Will do the most extr'-
ordinary stunts, an wipe up the floor
with the most skilfull players there IS.
Sich things is ca'lated to make a man
lose faith in Providence, 2thouten he's
got genuine religion. an realizes that the
principles o draw poker remains the
same, no matter what happens II a
tenderfoot wins out ag'in really an
truly good player. faint always to be
sot down to luck. Sometimes its real
genius.
There was a thing happened once,
right here in this ROOM that proved 1t.
Happenin' the way it did. it We're a reel
calamity to the town. too, for there was
consid'ahie stringency in the money mar
ket just at that time OWN to there bein'
mighty few strangers in town for quite
spell, an them that was here bein'
men that didn't seem to care about play
in poker with the Arkansas City crowd.
| remember one fellow-he were a sport
in man, too--says to me that he didn't
mind goin up against anything short OF
cyclone. an he reckoned hisseif a tar
poher-player, but I'm what he'd herd
up an down the river, he'd made up his
mind there was too much talent here
fr any one man TO tackle by hisself
The boys was gettin' sort o. gloomy,
an some OF EN- was beginnn' to think
twa'n't much use hangn' together the
way they afays has, if there want no
more strangers comm along, which there
hadn't been for more'n a month. when
a little chap got off the boat one night,
an asst the way TO the hotel Feared
ba ba some business NV ;,, ;t+1a
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-20

Copyright. 1902. by Robt: Howard Russell.
There is questions" said. old man
G1eenhut, that amt easy to settle off
hand an there is times when them same
questions, that a man thinks he has set
,lee once for ALL comes back to bother
him, Just as if he hadn't never give EN-
no consideration afore. There's them that
takes religion serious-like that's both
cred that away all their lives They ar
Eres an argues[ab free will an free
destination. like it was important for
-em to know which was tother. Std o
leavin' SIGH things to the preachers that's
paid to understand IL all. Pears like
some folks was satisfied to sepnd all their
time splittin hairs about trlfieS an neg
lectin' serious matters.
..But It's 90 about reel important things,
too. II You stop 10 think about IT. Even
the things that has to do with gettin
ON in the world. an keepin' respectable
oin.t always to be understood ofI-hand.
There's problems that the ordinary man
don't never get no comprehension Of. an
II sometimes stump me. M Tree 10
gay that I has doubts. at times about
good many things.
Take draw poker. There amt no man
Ter doubt but what draw poker is the
most scientiickest pursuit they is. wheth-
er YOU look at it as a game. Incidental
like. or whether you make a. reel business
OF It, like intellectual man can, If he's
got the nerve. An Yet there's times
when It seems like men was inspired TO
play. The hull system o science is up
sot by some stroke o genius. like an the
most carefullest plans O. them that's give
then lives TO a, study O the principles o
poker. is knocked sky high, by Teller
that hain't never give no signs O. hein'
anybody"
Inc old man paused after he had de-
IircrAd this discourse, and shook his head
c"Gt italy. Then. after wiping off tie
bar. nc carefully relishted cne cirar-lntt
Between his teeth and walked around 10
his faTcrite sea. by the wiud,.y Putting
his feet ion the sill. he smoked a few
minutes in thoughtful silence and then
went on:
There's them that calls it luck" he
said. when RELY good player is beat
out that way by a te1derfoot that hain,t
never had no trainin. but that amt no
satisfactory way of explainin' things /
mint sayin but what luck does count
sometimes You'll hear of mule gettin'
struck by lightpin' sometimes, but light
ming don't kill all the mules that dies.
a man may draw two cards an fill a
straight flush. an just naturally he may
have four of kind out against him. or
ace-fuil, an make a KILN, even If he
don't know enough poker to lay down
three OF kind against a double raise.
o. course, that's what you may call luck,
u -