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GENUINE "WASH LADIES'.
How TIVE Chicago Sisters who Had
to Earn Their Own Living Made
Both Ends Meet.

Among the lucrative and very rri-
vate sources of income discovered by
breadwinning women none has proved
more interesting and profitable than
that Of dainty laundry work. Two
women, sisters, who occupied tiny
apartment and found themselves sud-
denly obliged to earn their own sup
port, discovered to their dismay that
their only remarkable talent was
profound knowledge of the high art OF
clear starching, lace cleaning and fine
ironing. Even this accomplishment
didn't look exactly valuable until
well-to-do friend volunteered to send
them all the exceedingly fine laundry
work that their hands could do and
their kitchen could accommodate. The
sisters agreed to make the experiment,
and the first week from her own ward
robe and that of few interested init
mates the helpful friend sent them five
dozen very fine handkerchiefs, a
dozen or two sets of sheer lawn and
lace cuffs and collar bands, and set
OF rarely beautiful doilies. The laun-
dry ladies took the stock under con-
sideration, boiled, blued, starched and
ironed the articles, and were sur
prised at the profits of the weeks
work.
At the end Of three months their
fame had spread far and fatteringly
in aristocratic circles. Not only were
they overtaxed with orders, but they
were able to raise their prices and en-
heavy labor and boy with push
cart to gather up and deliver the or
ders. With handkerchiefs, lace collars,
cuffs, doilies and small pieces of extra
fine underwear they also admitted
babies clothes until now their very
exclusive little establishment is
known best as the Babies Laundry.
No expert French or Swiss cleaners
can starch or iron caps and bibs, pet
ticoats and fine white dresses, as do
these two American spinsters, who are
now busy training couple of good
country girls to follow in their foot
steps and devote artistic thought and
care to the get-up of the dainty gar
ments.
These genuine wash ladies have now
been practicing their new-found pro-
fession for full year. They have dis
covered that it not only sufices to
support them in comfort, but at pres
ent tempts them to expand their very
modest plant into larger quarters,
where they will be able to reap even
tually the really ample profits that are
waiting them in this purely feminine
.nterprise.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Let this Coupon be your Messenger Of Deliver
ance from Kidney, Bladder, and Urinary Troubles

It's the people who
doubt and Become cured
while they doubt who
praise Doanss Pills tho
highest.
Aching backs are eased.
Hip, back, and loin pains
overcome. Swelling Of the
limbs and dropsy signs
vanish.
They correct urine with
brick dust sediment, high
colored, pain In passing,
dribbling, frequency, bed
wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills
remove calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitation,
sleeplessness, h eadache,
nervousness, dizziness.
rAYLoRsv1L1E, MISS. III
tried everything for . weak
back and got no relief until 7
used Doan's Pills."
i. N. LHvrS
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Didn't Get Throuxh.

They are laughing in Washington over
Q rebuke that a sentry. of one of the de.
partments administered recently to the
Russian ambassadors coachmah.
The coachman, it appears, wished to
drive his masters carriage along 2 road
When the sentry refused to let the car.
riage pass, the coachman demonstrated:
II drive" he said, ~ Russian min.
ister."
u can't help It," returned the sen.
'Let me trough" persisted the coach.
man. my master 10 re Count Cassni,
ze ambassador extraordinary and minis:
ter plenipotentiary OF re car of all ~
"Frenchy," said the sentry" II wouldn't
let you through even if your master waa
Z free-born American citizen. "-Boston
Post.
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OLD MEXICAN VASE.
Client American Ceramics So
Far Uncovered.

Among the strange and valuable OBJ
jects which have been recently in
stalled in the Mexican hall of the
American Museum of Natural History
New York, of which Mr.. Marshall H.
Saviile is curator, is wonderful terra
Gotta jar, designed and decorated in
imitation of turkey. This is con-
sidered the most magnificent speci-
men of ancient American ceramics so
far discovered.
Besides the striking and artistic
turkey head handle, the most extraor-
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Cold April Every Hundred Years.

French meteorologists have worked
out the theory that exceptionally
frigid Aprils occur at intervals of ex-
actly 100 years. In April, 1903, the
cutters were frozen and snow fell in
Paris. In April, 1903, the price of
wood rose and people died of cold in
the streets, while a chronicler of the
period writes: "There is snow at Yer
sailles. and We are perishing of cold
at Paris at a season when the sun
ought to be warming us. The north
winds affiict us, bringing US cold from
the mountains" Documentary evil
1ence is not needed to prove that
April, 1903, is also distinguished by
low temperatures.-Chicago Chron
iele.
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STARTING 1T RIGHT.
This Woman Was Superstitious Aboat
Having Thirteen Stamps On
Her Package.

"How much postage will this pack.
age require!" asked a woman at the
window of the Ravenswood postal sta.
ton. relates the Chicago Daily News.
Thirteen cents" was the answer.
"Just exactly 49,"
eyes"
"Think It would 60 all rieht!"
.".,Wouldnt it 60 for II cents"
" "MS.t i, better b: put IA cents on r."
Thirteen is unlucky. you know.
Wouldn't it get lost?"
"Wouldn't it be sure to fetch up at the
dead-letter Officer"
Hardly"
"Some differing clerk would steal it?'
Uncle Sans clerks are honest"
"Well, that may be, but I'm not going
to start that stuff away from here with
q hoodoo amount of postage sticking to
it. The address would rub off, it would
get smashed in the mail, even if it didn't
roll out Of the car and get under the
wheels. That's not all. If the woman
to whom it is addressed discovered that
It came to her home for Is cents, she
find fault with the goods, be cross for q
week, and finally throw the whole thing
into the fire. Here's another cent; make
it II and start it right"
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New Wheat Fields in southvest.

What would you think if told that the
unirrigated sections of Western Kansas,
Eastern Colorado and Panhandle of Texas
can be counted on to produce 100000
bushels of wheat annually? Yet that is
what a government official predicts with
reference to a new variety of that cereal
imported from Russia, known as maca-
roni wheat. Recent experiments, as re:
ported to the industrial department of
the Santa Fe, show that this plant -four
ishes best where the rainfall is less than
Is inches a year. The yield per acre is
equal to that of ordinary wheat, and the
price received is about the same.
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AUDITOR AND CAVALRYMAN.
They Held Different Opinions On the
Question Of the Necess1ty
of Baths.

"Auditors and controllers are the
natural enemies CT mankind" re-
marked an army officer. "But more
particularly are they the enemies of
an army officer. They take great de-
light in finding reasons why they
should not pass an officers accounts,
and take advantage of the least little
technicality or any possible way of
refusing to do so. Sometimes an Off
Ger, to get just claim that has been
turned down by the auditor or con-
troller, has been compelled to go to
congress, and the printing bill for the
account was four times as large as the
amount in the first instance"
Gen. Weston got the best of an aud
itor when he was in the Seventh caval-
ry, and this is the way he tells the
story, says the Washington Post;
II was on horse board at Kansas
City, and before horse could be ac-
copied he was sent a mile at very
fast clip, to test his endurance. OBJ
served that the men who were selling
the horses had a rider who would take
them behind a clump of trees, where l
could not see, and shortened the dis
lance. decided to ride the horses
myself, and I tried about 20 day. I
would get pretty we'll warmed up
with that kind of work, and I went in
afterward and took bath. I charged
up the bath each day in my expenses.
But the account came back from the
auditor with the Endorsement:
"'One bath day is luxury, and
not necessity. One bath a week is
enough"
"And I Endorsed right under that:
1T may be enough for an auditor, but
not enough for cavalryman.'
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Summer Tours.

If you have not decided where to 60, or
how to 60, don't fai! to get a copy. It is
certainly worth sending for, and reading
carefully after you get it., 1t tells all about
the pleasant places on the M1ch,g an E Eea
land resorts. Send two red stamps. Ad-
dress o. W. Ruggles, G. P. & T. A., Dept.
Adv'g, Chicago.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06
Auerie.,, s~n.er ne..rt 2,

AmetIe6D U0Ah@f lG4Do1toe
When It begins 70 get hot and dry 0n1lD8
and rivers and the seashore Of New York
and New England, and we begin % wondaE
how much It would require Of time ard
money to make the trip. a lot Of the1o
questions are answered and . lot Of infoD
nation given free in .sFonr-Track 8eriesD
No. 8, Americas Summer Resorts" Sent
on receipt Of a two-cent stamp, by George
H. Daniels, General Passenger Agent, New
York Central g. Hudson River Railroad,
Grand Central Station. New York.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06
The CHANGE.

"He used to kiss me every time We
passed through a tunnel before our mar.
riage," raid the little woman, with sad
reflections.
"And does he do so now?" asked the
bosom friend.
mo, he takes drink" - Chicago Daily
News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06
INDIANS GROWING MUSICAL.
the Settled Tribes OF the North.
west for Pianos.

A score of years ago it would have
been difficult to convince westerner
familiar with the stiff-legged dance Of
the Indian and his monotonous Ho-ya!
Ho-ya! that the red folks would ever
become musicians. And yet that il
what is happening.
Pianos are appearing in the homes
not only of the Oklahoma and Indian
Territory Indians, who have money
for almost any old luxury, but also in
those of the Sioux and Blackfeet and
Cows. A Lincoln wholesaler has in
the last six months sold no fewer than
Is pianos, averaging in price more than
$500 apiece, to families of the northern
Indians.
Indian schools in the east and west
are responsible for this novelty. The
returning musicians must have their
pianos, and their orders for good
music are on fle<with dealers all the
time.
Music is not inherent in the Indian
as in the African. The idea of the In
dian before he is educated to music is
to select two tones, balancing the voice
back and forth between them, in
monotonous fashion. The women OF
the Sioux tribe, when performing the
squaw dance, jump up and down, ut
tering a cultural sound half way be-
tween a grunt and a moan. There 10
not the least bit Of music about it.
Perhaps the nearest approach to any
nn,e;o %bo noIo&o Tndiopc have shOwn
was in the ghost-dancing days of the
early zoos, when fervor and religious
fanaticism lent spirit to their songs.
But even in these the ear-distracting
repetition was present. These ghost
songs-'wanagi olewan xmas sung
by the Sioux were of number of stan
zas, the same meter running through
all. Some idea of the monotony of the
sounds can be gathered from the open
ing verse, which went:
Ina he kuye. ina he kuye.
Misunla ceya omani ye.
Misunla ceya omani We.
Ate heye, ate heye 10.
Ate heye 10.
This same ending, which means
saith my father, saith my father"
marked a dozen verses. Some con.
cluded with ''Nihun quon he heye 10,
nihun quon heye 10" (saith my moth
er, saith my mother'D, while. still 9th.
ers with "Unci heye ce, unci heye &c"
("saith my grandmother") and "Tuwa
heye, ce, tuwa heye ce' ("saith some
body'). -. ~ ~ So
Parts were sung alternately by men
and women, while both Joined in the
refrain. The terminal words 10" and
I'VE" seemed to have been added for
the purpose of euphony rather than
for any change in meaning.
This ghost song was in the nature OF
chant, as indeed most true Indian
songs are. An accent or emphasis was
given at about every second beat OF
common time. The refrain was at
times wall, with an unusually plain.
tive quality.
Many Of the Sioux have become good
musicians, largely through the ad'
mixture of French blood, says writer
in the New York Sun. The old fur
traders of St. Paul were French, and
a not inconsiderable number of
Frenchmen trapped through this re-
gion 50 years ago and settled down
with squaws as wives.
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And It's IncuF4ble

Judge-What is your profession?
Witness-Pse a poet, your honor.
Huh! That's not profession; its 1
disease. Chicago Daily News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06
Preclous Girls.

Beryl-Yes, l know the count |. very
sincere in his attentions to me. How
can you cay he is trifer?
Sibyl-I know that he loves you, dear
ard that is why cay he pays undue At
tention to trifes-Baltimore Herald.
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"A RArA-

Mrs. Latto-How did Mrs. Bilkins ever
get the reputation for being such bore?
Mrs. Barkey-She tried the experiment Of
making it point never to say anything but
good Of anyone behind their back.-Brook-
lvn Eaale
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06
fer Preference.

''Shall administer gas before extract
ing your tooth?" asked the dentist.
"Well," answered the fair patient from
Z back township, ''if it doesn't cost any
more, I'd rather you'd give me electric
light" Chicago Daily News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06

Don't Get Footsore! Get Foot.Ease.
A wonderful powder that cures tired, hot,
aching feet and makes new or tight shoes
easy Ask to-day for Aliens Foot Ease.
Accept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, NY.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06
No Need OF ImpQtieAce.

It 10 only 81 more years until We start
another century, and if they slip along as
fast as those that are just gone it will be
here before We know it.-Pittsbure Times.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06

Fair Warning..-Je (nervously)-' who il
that tramping around overbead?" She
THAT'S papa. He always gets restless to-
ward morning. "-Town and Country.
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Not Dangeroua.

Tess-1t seems she was taken with Mr..
Cadleigh's intelligence.
Jess-Well, if that's all she's taken with
it isn't very severe attack.-Pliladelph
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to
apply it, not having it, to confess it.-Con-
fucius.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06

Thin people who want to appear stouter
have been known to lie in wait.-Philadel.
phia Evening Bulletin.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06

Whenever good grammarian finds good
idea, he endeavors to~fnd a grammatical
error in its INSTRUMENTATION Globe
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06

One pueilist seldom strikes another favor.
sbly.-Philadelphia Record.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06

Whoever are least disturbed in mind bX
calamities, and in act struggle against them,
these are the best men in states and in PR
vate lite.-Epictetus.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-06

The Four Track News for July, best yet
Sold by newsdealers. Five cents copy.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-09-04
LETTER TO GEO. c. STONE.
clarxsSrzS, VI. va.


Dear Sir: We suspect you'd like the
tale. how a woman beat two hardware
dealers in Girari. Pa.
we tried orr best to get those men to
sell Devoe lcea-and-zinc in that bright
town; and failed Reluctantly took Mrs
L R. Bowman. druggist.
They said shey couldn't sell paint fcs
more than 1875 gallon. Mrs. Bowman
can. She has sold abont all the pain;
that has bees --ii .''.rc since
She knew pcvpc. had sold our artists
Had some sense and FORE. be-idc-: she
easily learned that cheap IS dear in
paint, and told the people.
Mr.. Burt Young bought gallon De-
voc for rooms that had always tal..n !.
gallon; had half left.
Mr.. f. II. Iiiler, jeweier, painted De-
voc, and says it goes further-no partic-
ular-
Mr.. John Hanna, grocer, thought ii
expensive before he bought it; brough,
back nearly half of his paint. and said i;
was the cheapest job he ever had.
Mrs. Bowman reports universal salts
faction. So much for cheap-paint town
with n bright woman in 1t.
Yours truly,
F. W. DEvOE & co.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-09-04
SUCCESSFUL
AFFAIR
Was the Dancing Party Given ~ the
clarksburg Opera House Band in Elk
bridge HAN Tuesday Evening.

About twenty-five couples were pres
ent at the society dance given by the
Clarksburg Opera House band in the Elk
bridge dancing hall in Glen Elk Monday
evening. The band rendered the, music
for the dancers. The guests present en-
joyd themselves immensely in tripping
the light fantastic and they continued
the enjoyment until late four. The af-
fair was given by the band, and it was
very success one from both social
and financial standpoint. 1t is the inten-
tion of the band to give other like func-
tons during thee oming season Band
music i vei: popular with the dancers
and the 'lanec- given III the future will
no doabs br zen more successful than
the one given last night.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-09-04
MRS. BROWNING
is BANKRUPT
Did Business nere as West virginia Pro.
duee Company, Her Husband Be
ing Agent.

Flora a. Browning, trudins and doing
business at Chrksburg as the West vir-
ginia Produce and Commission company,
filed petition in bankruptcy before
Referee George w. johnson at Parkers-
burg Thursday afternoon and was I'D
judisa,ted bankrupt The liabilities OF
the concern aggregate si,74s and the as
sets are scheduled ut sl,4OO.
Mrs. browning resides ut Belpre and
the business has been conducted by her
husband, W. X. Browning, as agent. Mr..
Browning was tangled up financially sew
eral years ago.
This is the third occasion that wo-
man has been adiudie,ted bankrupt
by Referee Johnson since the law be-
came effective scvral years ago.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-09-04
RATHER FLAsHY
is WALLACE DISTRICT
Another Gusher Declines Quickly, But is
stin Producing Much Oil Daily.

Developments in the lower southwest
fields during the past week were little
more interesting than for some time past.
On the whole there was nothing discov-
cred to lead to the conclusion that de-
velopments OF the near future will
change the general situation The source
of new production to supply the decline
in the old fields is as remote as at any
time during the year. The best strike OF
the week was made by the South Penn
Oil company when it drilled in its No. 4
ON the G. W. Talkingtou farm, located
east of the Folsom district in this coun-
ty, and got producer that started at
500 barrels day. This territory has
been rather Hashy. 1t will be recalled
that the South Penn company's No. I
ON the Jesse Talkington, a mile north
of the G. W. darlington No. 4, started
Mt better than 1000 barrels day, bat
in short time had declined to an or
binary pumper. The new strike is not
making any better record. The gauge
for the last twenty -four hours was $50
barrels.
ia zoe Folsom district the South Penn
company has drilled its No. on the
David TallSington farm lG feet into the
Gordon and the well produced 10 bar
re!s The first % hours. The same cont
plry has drilled it, second test OF the
Harriet darlington farm into the Cor
don and has show for buster. No: .
on the A. H. Hildrcth farm has been
drilled - feet into the stray and has n
SINAI, showing of oil. No. / ON sne IIar-
riet Tallsington farm Ia. been SHOT and
produced 60 barrels the ensuing % hours.
In the same district the South Penn
Oil company's test on the S. j. KiIeoyne
farm producer 10 barrels the first Is
hours and IS still drilling. The same
company has drilled its test on the Ma
tilda and VIM. Gallagher farms into the
Big Injun 20 and Is feet. respectively,
and neither is showing any oil.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-09-04
FIpucIARY NOTICE.

The accounts of the following named
fiduciaries are before me for settlement:
Luther H. Cofrman and L. C. Grille,
executors of b. +. Coffman. deceased; T,
}. Dennison, executor of j. W. Dcnnison.
deceased.
\. f. Smith, administrator of E NJ
Smith, deceased.
$. L. Perine. administrator of r.. n.
pcri=c. deceased.
4 \. Lawson, guardian of Guy Law
son.
A. y. Lawson. committee Of r.conn B.
Lawson.
W. II. Maxwell, administrator of 0. A.
Hartman, deceased.
Lloyd l. Lang. sheriff. administrator
of Charles Lyon. deceased.
civen ,isjer my land this the Goth day
Of August. 1909.
JAMES \. DAVID,
Commissioner of accounts for Harrison
County, West Virginia sep4-wst
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-09-04
ADJouRNs COURT TO
MEET GREAT GRAND CHILD.

Magistrate NJ. 5. Riley adjourned his
court for a while Tuesday morning. 1t
IS little out OF the ordinary for the
squire to close up his court during BUSH
ness hours, but an event of unusual oc-
currencc happened that morning and so
he closed up shop. He went to the de-
pot to meet Mr.. and Airs. w. w. Bry-
ant, of Pittsburg. who arrived here to
make Airs. Bryant's folks short visit.
Squire Riley, rather than send some 9TH
er member of the family to the depot,
went himself, more particularly to meet
his great grandchild. Mrs. Bryant is Afr.
Riley's granddaughter. Eight months
ago. w. W. Bryant, Jr, was born in
Pittsburg. making Squire Riley great
grandfather. The magistrate was very
anxious TO see his Grst great-grandehild,
and for that reason he adjourned his
magisterial court sooner than usual Ti,es.
day. 4fr. Bryant,is = telegraph operator
IN Pittsburg and + connected with The
Western Union company there.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-09-04
FEARFUL ODDS AGAINST HIM.

Bedridden. alone and destitute. Such,
in brief. was thc condition of an old sol
der by name of J. j. Havsns, Versailles,
%. For years he was troubled with kill
ncy disease AMI neither doctors nor medi-
ciHes gave him relief. At length he tried
Electric Bittcrs. 1t put him on his feet
IN short order and aHw i.r ;c.t:,ie-. "I'm
on the road 70 complete recovery. Best
on earth for liver and kidney troubles
and all forms OF stomach and bowel com
s'iaint-. Only soc. Guaranteed by Stone
& Mercer, druggists.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-09-04
OIL WELLS
COMING IN
Several Producers Are Coming in Nea,
wallaee.-cusher is Sim Declining.

In the Folsom district. No. 8, on the w.
y. starkey farm. is drilling in the Stray,
b9t has found no oil.
Harriet darlington No. is drilling, IN
the top of the Gordon and his light
show OF oil. A. H. Hildreth No. 4 is
drilling in the Gordon and the hole has
filled up 800 feet with oil. Genine Robin.
son No. - has been drilled nine feet into
the Gordon and has filed up 100 feet
with oil.
On the east side of the district, the
south Penn Oil company's No. on the
G. W. Talkington farm has declined to
2l5 barrels day.